US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Chemical on April 14 for "Gas separation method and gas separation apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,869, issued on April 14, was assigned to Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gas separation method and gas separation apparatus" was invented by Naoki Noguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas separation method including performing a gas separation operation that separates a source gas into a primary-side gas and a secondary-side gas with a membrane of a membrane module. The source gas contains a combustible component. The gas separation operation includes pressurizing the source gas and supplying the source gas to a primary side of the membrane module and depressurizing a secondary side of the membrane module to a pressur...