US Patent Issued to UOP on April 8 for "Process for preparing an olefin stream for oligomerization with water wash" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,001, issued on April 8, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Process for preparing an olefin stream for oligomerization with water wash" was invented by Andrew Piotrowski (Chicago), Ernest J. Boehm (Hanover Park, Ill.), John J. Senetar (Naperville, Ill.), Matthew C. Cole (Evanston, Ill.), Jeannie Mee Blommel (Oregon, Wis.), Christopher Procopi (Glencoe, Ill.), Ian G. Horn (Streamwood, Ill.) and Andrew B. Chin (Wilmette, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for preparing an olefin stream for oligomerization comprises fractionating an olefin stream to provide a light gas stream and an olefin rich stream. Oxygenates ar...