ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,676, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOPSOE A/S (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark).

"Process and plant for the production of synthesis gas and generation of process condensate" was invented by Steffen Spangsberg Christensen (Koge, Denmark) and Nitesh Bansal (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process and plant for producing a synthesis gas by catalytic steam reforming of a hydrocarbon feedstock in a steam reforming unit, wherein water is removed from the synthesis gas as a process condensate, wherein boiler feed water is introduced in the process, and wherein said process or plant produces at least two separate steam streams: a pure stea...