US Patent Issued to UOP on Oct. 14 for "Process for increasing liquid fuel yield from carbon oxides" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,946, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Process for increasing liquid fuel yield from carbon oxides" was invented by Ling Zhou (Palatine, Ill.), Jan de Ren (Arlington Heights, Ill.) and Sakthivelan Maadasamy Durai (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for supplementing production of liquid fuel from carbon oxides is disclosed. The process comprises contacting a hydrocarbon feed stream with a catalyst in a reactor to produce a reactor effluent stream. The reactor effluent stream is separated to provide a dry gas stream. The dry gas further separated into a CO2 rich stream and a CO2 lean s...