US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude on May 19 for "Process and apparatus for separating a mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,630, issued on May 19, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Process and apparatus for separating a mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide" was invented by Felix Pere (Paris) and Mathieu Leclerc (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a process for separating a mixture containing hydrogen and carbon dioxide, the mixture is compressed to form a compressed mixture, the compressed mixture is separated by partial condensation and/or distillation generating a first CO2-depleted stream, the first CO2-depleted stream is separated by permeation through a membrane sy...