US Patent Issued to JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 20 for "Solar-driven methanol reforming system for hydrogen production" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,478, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Zhenjiang, China).

"Solar-driven methanol reforming system for hydrogen production" was invented by Wei Kong (Zhenjiang, China), Heping Shao (Zhenjiang, China), Yang Sun (Zhenjiang, China), Leitao Han (Zhenjiang, China) and Yanni Gu (Zhenjiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar-driven methanol reforming system for hydrogen production includes a water storage tank, high-temperature solar collector tubes, a thermocouple, valves, preheaters, an evaporator, a reactor, a heat exchanger, a mixed solution (methanol and water) storage tank, a gas...