US Patent Issued to Casale on April 14 for "Method for the suppression of soot formation in an ATR or POX reactor" (Italian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,625, issued on April 14, was assigned to Casale SA (Lugano, Switzerland).

"Method for the suppression of soot formation in an ATR or POX reactor" was invented by Luca Zanichelli (Milan) and Giacomo Colmegna (Massagno, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the suppression of soot formation during the partial oxidation of a hydrocarbon-containing gaseous feed, in the presence of steam and in an ATR reactor or in a POX reactor, the method comprising the addition of gaseous carbon dioxide to the hydrocarbon-containing gaseous feed before entry into the reactor. A method for determining a minimum steam to carbon ratio r...