ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,900, issued on March 17, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"Recovery of energy" was invented by Kiara Aenne Kochendoerfer (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Eric Jenne (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Andrey Shustov (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention proposes an apparatus (110) comprising a multitude of tubes. At least one of the tubes is set up as a reaction tube (112) for at least one feedstock to flow through. The apparatus (110) has at least one energy recovery shell (130) at least partly surrounding the reaction tube (112). The energy recovery shell (130) has ...