US Patent Issued to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.R.L. on Oct. 20 for "Ammonia-based carbon dioxide abatement system and method, and direct contact cooler therefore" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,459, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.R.L. (Florence, Italy).

"Ammonia-based carbon dioxide abatement system and method, and direct contact cooler therefore" was invented by Olaf Stallmann (Frankfurt, Germany) and Schnoor Birger (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct contact cooler comprises a flue gas stream path extending from a flue gas inlet to a flue gas outlet. The direct contact cooler further includes a first treatment section and a second treatment section disposed along the flue gas stream path. The first treatment section is arranged upstream of the second treatment section...