US Patent Issued to UOP on Oct. 28 for "Process and apparatus for reacting feed with a fluidized catalyst with a reduction in catalyst loss during startup" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,966, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Process and apparatus for reacting feed with a fluidized catalyst with a reduction in catalyst loss during startup" was invented by Richard A. Johnson II (Algonquin, Ill.), John J. Senetar (Naperville, Ill.), Sathit Kulprathipanja (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Adam J. Kanyuh (Streamwood, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluidized catalytic reactor connected to a start-up heater is provided. The start-up heater provides sufficient heat to a catalyst containing stream to gradually increase the feed temperature. This allows for a critical volumetric flow rate to be achieve...