US Patent Issued to Chart Energy & Chemicals on June 16 for "Cryogenic gas cooling system and method" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,057, issued on June 16, was assigned to Chart Energy & Chemicals Inc. (Ball Ground, Ga.).

"Cryogenic gas cooling system and method" was invented by Martin Knoche (Oberstammheim, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A precool heat exchanger system receives a stream of first cryogenic fluid for warming a second cryogenic fluid. A first splitter receives and divides a first cryogenic fluid stream into a motive stream and a secondary cooling stream. An ejector receives the motive stream. An expansion device receives and expands the secondary cooling stream and directs at least a portion of it to the precool heat exchanger system so...