US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on Feb. 17 for "Hydrocarbon conversion to liquid fuel by high-energy electron beam irradiation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,995, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Hydrocarbon conversion to liquid fuel by high-energy electron beam irradiation" was invented by David Staack (College Station, Texas) and Kunpeng Wang (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hydrocarbon conversion and transportation methods and apparatuses are provided. An apparatus may apply electron beam irradiation to hydrocarbons (i.e., natural gas) to convert the hydrocarbons to liquid fuel. Lower-weight hydrocarbons may be converted into medium-weight organics through a gas to liquid process (GTL). The electrons may...