US Patent Issued to ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER on Dec. 2 for "Dryer for compressed gas, compressor installation provided with a dryer and a method for drying compressed gas" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,379, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER N.V. (Wilrijk, Belgium).

"Dryer for compressed gas, compressor installation provided with a dryer and a method for drying compressed gas" was invented by Geert Hellemans (Wilrijk, Belgium) and Thibault Crepain (Wilrijk, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dryer for compressed gas includes a pressure vessel containing a drying zone and a regeneration zone, a drum within the rotation symmetrical part, equipped with a regenerable drying agent; driving means for rotating the aforementioned drum so that the drying agent is successively moved through the drying zone and the re...