ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,570, issued on April 7, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).
"Method for operating an electrolysis plant, and electrolysis plant" was invented by Klaus Scheffer (Nuremberg, Germany) and Erik Wolf (Rottenbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for operating an electrolysis plant which has an electrolyzer for generating hydrogen and oxygen as product gases, wherein water is fed as educt water to the electrolyzer and split into hydrogen and oxygen at an ion-exchange membrane. Prior to splitting, the educt water is brought into a thermodynamic state close to the boiling poin...