US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on March 17 for "System for producing magnesium chloride and system for producing magnesium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,120, issued on March 17, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"System for producing magnesium chloride and system for producing magnesium" was invented by Yoshiaki Ito (Tokyo), Kazuhisa Takeuchi (Tokyo), Ryo Kamito (Tokyo) and Masashi Kiyosawa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for producing magnesium chloride includes a removal unit, and a concentration unit that is connected to the removal unit. The removal unit generates feedstock water by removing sulfate ions and sodium ions from treatment target water having seawater as a feedstock. The concentration unit generates a slurry in which m...