US Patent Issued to Fluor Technologies on June 16 for "Gas reformer for producing hydrogen" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,020, issued on June 16, was assigned to Fluor Technologies Corp. (Irving, Texas).

"Gas reformer for producing hydrogen" was invented by Ravi Ravikumar (Lancaster, Calif.) and Sunil Singhal (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for reforming for producing hydrogen and generating electricity, comprises: introducing a feed comprising a hydrocarbon stream to a reformer to produce unshifted synthesis gas (syngas); introducing the unshifted syngas to a water gas shift unit to produce a shifted syngas; removing CO2 from the shifted syngas to produce a CO2 depleted syngas and a CO2 product; introducing the CO2 depleted sy...