US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on May 19 for "Method of generating energy from sequestered supercritical carbon dioxide" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,091, issued on May 19, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Method of generating energy from sequestered supercritical carbon dioxide" was invented by Ryan W. McChesney (Carrollton, Texas) and Stephen Michael Greci (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) system and method generates electricity by applying a supercritical fluid to an expansion turbine connected to a generator. The expansion turbine sends the fluid from the expansion turbine to a compressor after expansion. The compressor compresses the fluid output by the expansion turbine into a desired supercritical...