Patents by Inventor Norman P. Kolb

Norman P. Kolb has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Alkylation with DIB vapor acid wash
    Patent number: 4293729
    Abstract: Improvements in heat exchanging of distillation steps in sulfuric acid alkylation processes; removing water from the vaporous overhead fraction of a sulfuric acid alkylation process distillation step or deisobutanizer to enable mixing thereof with the vaporous hydrocarbon effluent from the reaction zone which contains sulfur dioxide vapors sulfur trioxide and H.sub.2 SO.sub.4 mist, thus permitting mixing of the vaporous fraction and effluent for compression before use as a compressed heat exchanging medium in the alkylation process; sulfuric acid alkylation with deisobutanizer tower overhead effluent acid wash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1981
    Assignee: Stratford/Graham Engineering Corp.
    Inventors: Norman P. Kolb, Orlando Webb