US Patent Issued to TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT on July 22 for "Arrangement for producing hydrocarbons with parallel gasifier and cracking unit" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,846, issued on July 22, was assigned to TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Arrangement for producing hydrocarbons with parallel gasifier and cracking unit" was invented by Matti Nieminen (Espoo, Finland) and Matti Reinikainen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and process arrangement for producing hydrocarbons from polymer-based waste in which the polymer-based waste is gasified with steam at low temperature in a gasifier for forming a product mixture, and the temperature is 640-750deg C., and the product mixture is supplied from the gasifier to a recovery unit of the hydrocarbons for separating...