MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517043980 A) filed by Uop Llc, Des Plaines, U.S.A., on May 6, for 'dehydrogenation and pyrolysis product recovery with a common demethanizer.'

Inventor(s) include Ghosh, Sudipta; Balyan, Prashant; Zhu, Xin X; Cuellar, Kyle; Li, Fuyue Stephanie; and Boehm, Ernest J.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A process and apparatus integrate recovery of propylene from a pyrolysis reactor and a paraffin dehydrogenation reactor. A stripping column for fractionating a dehydrogenation stream is coupled with a demethanizer column for fractionating a pyrolyzed stream. The stripping overhead stream comprising C2- hydrocarbons are fractionated with the pyrolyzed stream in the demethanizer column. The coupling omits the need for a conventional deethanizer column and separate refrigeration system in the propane dehydrogenation unit."

The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 22, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/080902.

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