US Patent Issued to SABIC Global Technologies on July 14 for "Use of renewable energy in methanol synthesis" (British, Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,760, issued on July 14, was assigned to SABIC Global Technologies B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Use of renewable energy in methanol synthesis" was invented by Joseph William Schroer (Sugar Land, Texas), Scott Stevenson (Sugar Land, Texas), Andrew Mark Ward (Redcar, Great Britain), Tim Abbott (Redcar, Great Britain), Kenneth Francis Lawson (Redcar, Great Britain), Michael Edward Huckman (Sugar Land, Texas), Zhun Zhao (Sugar Land, Texas) and Arno Oprins (Geleen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A methanol synthesis plant comprising: a feed pretreating section operable to pretreat a feed stream; a synthesis gas (syngas)...