ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,644, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TIANJIN SHENLAN CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Tianjin, China).

"Equipment for production of butanol and octanol and triple-effect distillation method" was invented by Wengui Hou (Tianjin, China), Zhuo Zhang (Tianjin, China), Mingzhu Li (Tianjin, China), Yingqin Xie (Tianjin, China), Guocheng Liu (Tianjin, China), Zhenyu Tu (Tianjin, China) and Haihua Li (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an equipment for production of butanol and octanol and a triple-effect distillation method, comprising two processes: butanol separation and octanol separation, both p...