US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude on June 9 for "Process for producing pure methanol from a carbon dioxide-rich synthesis gas with single column purification" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,706, issued on June 9, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Process for producing pure methanol from a carbon dioxide-rich synthesis gas with single column purification" was invented by Timm Schuhmann (Bensheim, Germany), Tobias Oelmann (Bad Vilbel, Germany) and Michael Wilken (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process for producing pure methanol from carbon dioxide-rich synthesis gas, the process including the following steps: at least partially reacting the carbon dioxide rich synthesis gas in a methanol synthesis unit...