MUMBAI, India, Aug. 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202421014011 A) filed by Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Maharashtra, on Feb. 27, 2024, for 'process for selective conversion of olefins and simultaneous removal of impurities from hydrocarbon feed stocks.'
Inventor(s) include Maji, Prosenjit; Subramani, Saravanan; Yadav, Seema; Das, Satyen Kumar; Kumar, Sarvesh; and Sau, Madhusudan.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 29, under issue no. 35/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a process for removal of sulfur from olefinic C4/LPG stream and also removal of di-olefins by co-processing with a naphtha stream through selective hydrogenation route. The present invention also relates to a process for selective conversion of olefins for preparing feed stocks for recovery of petrochemicals or gasoline upgradation processes. The process converts up to 100% of the mercaptans and removes up to 50% of the di-olefins with a minimum or no loss of total olefins and minimum loss of valuable olefins. The process also increases the aromatics content of the naphtha stream when an olefinic naphtha/FFC gasoline is used for co-processing."
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