US Patent Issued to UOP on Oct. 7 for "Processes and apparatuses for heating a hydrocarbon feed stream for a reactor" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,282, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Processes and apparatuses for heating a hydrocarbon feed stream for a reactor" was invented by Srinivasan Ramanujam (New Delhi), Chintan Surendra Shah (New Delhi) and Pankaj Kumar Singh (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and apparatuses for heating a feed stream for a reactor which has a charge heater. At least one process stream provides heat so that a pre-heated feed stream passed to the charge heater is a vapor stream. The process stream may be the heated stream from the outlet of the charge heater. Alternatively, the process stream may be the eff...