US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL on May 12 for "Plasma conversion reactor of C02 with C1 to C4 hydrocarbon to C1 to C5 oxygenate and method thereof" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,199, issued on May 12, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Liverpool, Great Britain).

"Plasma conversion reactor of C02 with C1 to C4 hydrocarbon to C1 to C5 oxygenate and method thereof" was invented by Xin Tu (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Yaolin Wang (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for forming a C1 to C5 oxygenate from carbon dioxide and a C1 to C4 hydrocarbon is described. The apparatus comprises: a dielectric barrier discharge, DBD, device arranged to generate a plasma; and a passageway having an inlet for the carbon dioxide and the C1 to C4 hydrocarbon and an outlet for the oxygenat...