US Patent Issued to SABIC Global Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Start-up procedure for rapid attainment of optimal steady-state performance in membrane separation" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,417, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SABIC Global Technologies B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Start-up procedure for rapid attainment of optimal steady-state performance in membrane separation" was invented by Ashwin Ravi Sankar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for separating a liquid mixture are disclosed. A membrane is first soaked by the liquid mixture via dynamic soaking to reach steady state. During the soaking process, the flow rate of the liquid mixture is increased at a flow rate ramp, the temperature is increased at a temperature ramp, and the pressure drop is increased at a pres...