US Patent Issued to UOP on Aug. 5 for "Processes and apparatuses for separating chlorides from n-butane" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,171, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Processes and apparatuses for separating chlorides from n-butane" was invented by Amit Goyal (Haryana, India), Gregory J. Schrad (Winfield, Ill.), Gregory R. Werba (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Sean Mann (Chicago), Christine Marie Long (El Cerrito, Calif.) and Cynthia M. Kwik (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and apparatuses for separating chlorides from a butane product stream by removing chlorides from a portion of said feed stream in a rectification section of the separation zone. The rectification section may be in a rectification column wh...