US Patent Issued to UOP on Sept. 16 for "Process for regenerating catalyst from a fluidized catalytic process" (Indian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,960, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Process for regenerating catalyst from a fluidized catalytic process" was invented by Jan De Ren (Bracknell, Great Britain), Sakthivelan Maadasamy Durai (Gurugram, India) and Rakshit Mehta (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for regenerating catalyst from a fluidized catalytic process is disclosed. The process comprises passing a CO2 oxidation stream to a regenerator in which coke is combusted from catalyst to provide a CO2 rich flue gas stream. The CO2 rich flue gas stream is separated into an underflow stream comprising catalyst fines and a CO...