US Patent Issued to HALDOR TOPSOE on March 17 for "Ambient air separation and SOEC front-end for ammonia synthesis gas production" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,686, issued on March 17, was assigned to HALDOR TOPSOE A/S (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark).

"Ambient air separation and SOEC front-end for ammonia synthesis gas production" was invented by Peter Molgaard Mortensen (Roskilde, Denmark) and John Bogild Hansen (Humlebaek, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for generating ammonia synthesis gas by electrolysis, comprising the steps of compressing air and feeding it to an air separation process, in which the content of nitrogen is concentrated while the content of oxygen and CO2 is diluted, feeding a mixture of steam and the compressed and refined air into the electrolysis unit or i...