ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,261, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to BASF CATALYSTS GERMANY GMBH (Hannover, Germany).
"Method for electrochemical hydrogen separation from natural-gas pipelines" was invented by Carsten Henschel (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Otto Machhammer (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Andreas Fuessl (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention comprises a one-stage membrane process for electrochemical separation of hydrogen from natural gas streams in a pipeline (1) having a positive pressure in the range from 50 mbar to 100 bar, having the following process steps: (i) a gas substream (2) is dra...