US Patent Issued to thyssenkrupp Uhde, thyssenkrupp on Sept. 2 for "Method and system for the synthesis of methanol" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,225, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) and thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany).

"Method and system for the synthesis of methanol" was invented by Alexander Schulz (Frankfurt, Germany), Nicolas Von Winning (Bad Homburg vor der Hohe, Germany) and Sina Kunz (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for synthesizing methanol may involve supplying a CO2 stream consisting predominantly of carbon dioxide and an H stream consisting predominantly of hydrogen to a methanol reactor arrangement for conversion to methanol. A tail gas stream comprising unreacted hydrogen may be obtained f...