Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Verachtert, II

Thomas A. Verachtert, II 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).

  • High efficiency desulfurization process
    Patent number: 5914029
    Abstract: Economies in capital cost and operation of a hydrocarbon refining unit for desulfurization of diesel fuel are provided by a heat exchange sequence which eliminates the need for a fired heater on the product fractionation zone. The feed to the fractionation zone is heat exchanged twice against both the effluent bottoms stream of the fractionation zone and the reaction zone effluent stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventor: Thomas A. Verachtert, II