US Patent Issued to thyssenkrupp Uhde, thyssenkrupp on Feb. 24 for "Reactor for the catalytic treatment of a gas stream" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,660, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) and thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany).

"Reactor for the catalytic treatment of a gas stream" was invented by Pascal Minne (Dortmund, Germany) and Horst Honecker (Luenen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactor may have a catalyst bed for the catalytic treatment of a gas stream, with the catalyst bed extending substantially over a cross section of the reactor. Gas to be treated may axially fly through the catalyst bed. A carrier structure for the catalyst bed that is at least partly floatingly mounted in the reactor may include a sieve element a...