US Patent Issued to AUBURN UNIVERSITY on March 3 for "Dewatering viscous liquids with pressurized carbon dioxide" (Alabama, Georgia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,807, issued on March 3, was assigned to AUBURN UNIVERSITY (Auburn, Ala.).

"Dewatering viscous liquids with pressurized carbon dioxide" was invented by Osei Asafu-Adjaye (Auburn, Ala.), Brian Via (Opelika, Ala.), Bhima Sastri (North Potomac, Md.) and Sujit Banerjee (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of dewatering viscous materials are provided. The method comprises contacting the viscous material with pressurized carbon dioxide at a temperature and for a time wherein at least a fraction of water is expressed from the viscous material. Then the pressure is released, and the water expressed from the viscous material i...