ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,413, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).
"Heating integration with fired heaters" was invented by Chintan Surendra Shah (Haryana, India), Manoj Kumar (Haryana, India), Pankaj Kumar Singh (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Amit Munjal (Haryana, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes integrating electric heaters or other heating sources for heating of liquid and two phase hydrocarbon streams resulting in reduced CO2 emissions are described. The processes shift a portion of the fired heater duty to an electric heater or other heat source. All or a portion of a vapor stream from a two phase separator is heated ...