ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,350, issued on May 26, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).
"Process and apparatus for cracking ammonia" was invented by Vincent White (Surrey, Great Britain), Andrew Shaw (Sunbury on Thames, Great Britain) and Simon Craig Saloway (Surrey, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a process and apparatus for cracking ammonia in which heated ammonia gas at super-atmospheric pressure is partially cracked catalytically in an adiabatic reaction unit to produce partially cracked ammonia gas which is heated and fed to catalyst-containing reactor tubes in a furnace to cause cracking of f...