US Patent Issued to Stamicarbon on Sept. 15 for "Purge gas conditioning of NH3 plants" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,325, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, Netherlands).

"Purge gas conditioning of NH3 plants" was invented by Barbara Cucchiella (Gulpen, Netherlands), Joey Dobree (Maastricht, Netherlands), Mahal Patel (Sittard, Netherlands), Michael Mattis Carlos Verheijen (Herten, Netherlands) and Rolf Sybren Postma (Swalmen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure pertain to the conditioning of the purge gas stream in an NH3 synthesis plant comprising a water electrolysis unit to produce a H2 stream, ammonia synthesis loop, and a treatment section for treating purge gas at 10-70 bar(a) ...