US Patent Issued to SULZER MANAGEMENT on Oct. 6 for "Heat integration via heat pump on bottom dividing wall column" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,216, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SULZER MANAGEMENT AG (Winterthur, Switzerland).

"Heat integration via heat pump on bottom dividing wall column" was invented by Michael Silva (Houston), Saurav De (Katy, Texas) and Gary R. Martin (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dividing wall column system is provided. The dividing wall column system comprises a dividing wall column, a first reboiler, a second reboiler, and a heat pump. The dividing wall column includes a dividing wall positioned in a bottom section of the dividing wall column to divide the bottom section of the dividing wall column into a first side and a secon...