US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude on Feb. 17 for "Ammonia capture and recycle in an ammonia cracker" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,678, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Ammonia capture and recycle in an ammonia cracker" was invented by Michael Lutz (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Lorenzo Vicari (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Swatantra Kumar Shrivastava (Lich, Germany) and Dieter Ulber (Steinbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of separating and reusing unconverted ammonia from cracked ammonia gas provided by an ammonia cracking unit is provided. The method includes introducing a cracked ammonia gas stream into a water wash column, thereby producing ...