US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes on May 26 for "Process and plant for producing methanol and ammonia" (German, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,357, issued on May 26, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes (Georges Claude Paris, France).

"Process and plant for producing methanol and ammonia" was invented by Stefan Walter (Griesheim, Germany), Stephan Haase (Steinbach, Germany), Manon Cortale (Vincennes, France) and Sophia Schmidt (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "What is proposed is a process and a plant for parallel production of methanol and ammonia by heterogeneously catalyzed reaction of hydrogen and carbon oxides on the one hand hydrogen and nitrogen on the other hand. This includes producing a r...