Patents by Inventor Vivekanand Parulekar

Vivekanand Parulekar 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).

  • Multizone catalytic reforming process
    Patent number: 4985132
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon feedstock is catalytically reformed in a process which comprises contacting the feedstock in an initial catalyst zone with a catalyst comprising platinum, germanium and halogen on a solid catalyst support. The product from the first catalyst zone is contacted in a terminal catalyst zone with a catalyst having the essential absence of germanium and comprising platinum, halogen and a metal promoter on a solid catalyst support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: UOP
    Inventors: Mark D. Moser, R. J. Lawson, Li Wang, Vivekanand Parulekar, Roger L. Peer, Charles R. Hamlin