US Patent Issued to Air Products and Chemicals on Sept. 22 for "Process and apparatus for cracking ammonia" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,867, issued on Sept. 22, 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 Fabrice Amy (Macungie, Pa.).

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 at super-atmospheric pressure is partially cracked over a first catalyst in a reaction zone of an electrically heated reactor to produce partially cracked ammonia gas which is then cracked in reactor tubes containing a second catalyst in a fired re...