US Patent Issued to Linde on Aug. 25 for "Method and system for separating a gas mixture" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,965, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Linde GmbH (Pullach, Germany).

"Method and system for separating a gas mixture" was invented by Helmut Fritz (Pullach, Germany), Werner Leitmayr (Pullach, Germany) and Martin Lang (Pullach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Separating a starting gas mixture using pressure swing adsorption. In this, at least part of a low-pressure extraction flow from the pressure swing adsorption is subjected to a thermal separation, wherein a return fraction is formed in the thermal separation which is returned to the pressure swing adsorption separation. In the thermal separation, counterflow cooling tak...