ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,978, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Apparatus and process to provide cooling water for ammonia and or hydrogen productions" was invented by Graeme Richard Wilson (Surrey, Great Britain), Nicolas John Haryett (Surrey, Great Britain) and Matthew William Akhurst (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to provide cooling water to multiple facilities including a hydrogen plant that includes electrolyzers for manufacture of hydrogen and/or an ammonia plant including ammonia manufacturing for making ammonia. The apparatus can include a first cooling tower con...