US Patent Issued to ICM on May 19 for "Systems and methods for recycling energy from distillation" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,609, issued on May 19, was assigned to ICM Inc. (Colwich, Kan.).

"Systems and methods for recycling energy from distillation" was invented by Charles C. Gallop (Gower, Mo.) and Christopher Riley William Gerken (Helena, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for recycling energy in a production plant comprises a distillation device configured to generate a heated vapor in response to distillation and a system configured to recycle heat from the heated vapor back into the production plant. The system for recycling heat can comprise a fin-fan heat exchanger and a compressor or a heat pump with a heat exchanger configured as an evapo...