US Patent Issued to Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. on Oct. 27 for "Mixed membrane-type process for fuel gas upgrading" (New York, Delaware, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,426, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC (Houston).

"Mixed membrane-type process for fuel gas upgrading" was invented by Alexander S. Augustine (Newark, Del.), Nagaraju Palla (Houston) and Paul Terrien (Syracuse, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixed membrane system for producing a conditioned fuel gas from a high-pressure raw fuel gas that contains methane, CO2, H2S, N2, ethane, propane, and heavy hydrocarbons, the system comprising a pre-heater, configured to temperature control the high-pressure raw fuel gas forming a feed fuel gas; a gas splitter, configured to split the feed fuel g...