ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,164, issued on Sept. 29.
"Method and apparatus for fast iron and nickel carbonylation" was invented by Rolf Miles Olsen (West Bloomfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventions relate to controlling the particle size, and gas flows in moving beds of particles containing metallic iron and/or nickel, wherein the metallic iron or nickel are reactants in carbonylation reactions with carbon monoxide (a component of the flowing gas). The inventions' use is to increase the rates of production of iron carbonyl and nickel carbonyl. The inventions use cross-flow funnels containing moving beds of carbonylation particles (i.e., tha...