US Patent Issued to Messer Industries USA on March 17 for "Process and redox furnace for acid regeneration" (New Jersey, Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,103, issued on March 17, was assigned to Messer Industries USA Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Process and redox furnace for acid regeneration" was invented by Neeraj Saxena (New Providence, N.J.), Andrew Richardson (Clinton, N.J.), Blake Stapper (Austin, Texas) and Guisu Liu (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A RedOx furnace and process is provided for regenerating a spent sulfuric acid stream or other sulfur-containing stream by decomposing the spent sulfuric acid stream and/or other sulfur-containing stream to recover sulfur dioxide from the streams. The RedOx furnace includes a reduction chamber having an interior atmosp...