ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,655, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Double effect absorption cooling for industrial applications" was invented by Faisal B. Almutairi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ali A. Al-Ugla (Khobar, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for cooling a steelmaking plant can include a heat recovery unit with a gas inlet receiving flue gases from production processes of the steelmaking plant. A wastewater treatment unit has an inlet receiving waste water from the production processes of the steelmaking plant and a clean water outlet hydraulically connected to a cooling water inlet of th...