US Patent Issued to UOP on March 11 for "Process for catalytically converting naphtha to light olefins" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,005, issued on March 11, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Process for catalytically converting naphtha to light olefins" was invented by Deng-Yang Jan (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), Xi Zhao (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Jaime G. Moscoso (Mount Prospect, Ill.), Mathias Paul Koljack (Glenview, Ill.) and Gregory A. Funk (Carol Stream, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for converting naphtha to light olefins comprises contacting a naphtha stream with a zeolitic catalyst to produce a light paraffin stream at conditions which dehydrogenate the naphtha to olefins, interconvert the olefins to lighter olefins and hydrogenat...