US Patent Issued to SUSTEON on Jan. 20 for "High performance CO2 capture solvent compositions, and CO2 capture systems and processes utilizing same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,046, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SUSTEON INC. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"High performance CO2 capture solvent compositions, and CO2 capture systems and processes utilizing same" was invented by Aravind V. Rayer Rabindran (Morrisville, N.C.), Shaojun James Zhou (Cary, N.C.), Sujay Someshwar (Cary, N.C.) and Raghubir Prasad Gupta (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aqueous solvent composition useful for CO2 capture is described, that includes one or more CO2-sorbing amines, e.g., an amino acid salt and a tertiary or a sterically hindered amine. The solvent composition may include one or more promoters that are effective t...