US Patent Issued to Air Products and Chemicals on Feb. 17 for "Hydrogen separation from natural gas" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,844, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Hydrogen separation from natural gas" was invented by Kamlesh Ghodasara (Borehamwood, Great Britain), Maulik R. Shelat (Macungie, Pa.) and Edward Landis Weist Jr. (Macungie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for measuring the concentration of a light gas in a main flow stream are disclosed herein. The methods include calculating a control parameter as a function of the concentration of the light gas in the main flow stream; dividing a portion of the main flow stream to produce a feed stream; and separating the feed stream b...