US Patent Issued to UOP on Nov. 4 for "Process and apparatus for hydroprocessing a paraffinic feedstock" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,141, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Process and apparatus for hydroprocessing a paraffinic feedstock" was invented by John Anthony Petri (Wauconda, Ill.), Geoffrey William Fichtl (Chicago), Joseph Kozlowski (Brookfield, Ill.), Jan de Ren (Arlington Heights, Ill.) and Dhineshkumar Kandaraj (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for hydroprocessing a sustainable feedstock is disclosed. The process comprises hydrocracking a hydrocracking feed stream comprising greater than 90% paraffins in a hydrocracking reactor in the presence of hydrogen over a hydrocracking catalyst comprising one or m...