ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,702, issued on May 12, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR Corp. (Tokyo).

"Compressor train of chemical plants and method of operating compressor train of chemical plants" was invented by Satoru Yoshida (Hiroshima, Japan), Daisuke Kiuchi (Hiroshima, Japan), Yuta Miwada (Hiroshima, Japan) and Tomoaki Nogami (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor train of chemical plants includes: a compression unit which is driven to compress a process gas of the chemical plants; a steam turbine which is rotated by steam generated in accordance with the processing of the process gas of the chemical plants to dr...