US Patent Issued to SULZER MANAGEMENT on Aug. 12 for "Process and plant for preparing purified benzene composition from crude hydrocarbon stream containing benzene" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,736, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SULZER MANAGEMENT AG (Winterthur, Switzerland).

"Process and plant for preparing purified benzene composition from crude hydrocarbon stream containing benzene" was invented by Rahul Khandelwal (Katy, Texas) and Joseph C. Gentry (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for preparing a purified benzene composition from a crude hydrocarbon stream containing at least 10% by volume of benzene is provided. The process comprises subjecting the crude hydrocarbon stream and a further recycled benzene containing stream to a solvent-based extraction so as to produce a benzene enriched aromatic st...