US Patent Issued to HALDOR TOPSOE on June 16 for "ATR-based hydrogen process and plant" (Danish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,021, issued on June 16, was assigned to HALDOR TOPSOE A/S (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark).

"ATR-based hydrogen process and plant" was invented by Steffen Spangsberg Christensen (Koge, Denmark) and Arunabh Sahai (Faridabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant and process for producing a hydrogen rich gas are provided, said process comprising the steps of: reforming a hydrocarbon feed in a reforming step using an autothermal reformer (ATR) thereby obtaining a synthesis gas comprising CH4, CO, CO2, H2 and H2O; shifting said synthesis gas in a shift configuration including a high temperature shift step; passing the shifted syngas to a fi...