US Patent Issued to Union Engineering on March 3 for "Biomethanol production system and method" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,462, issued on March 3, was assigned to Union Engineering A/S (Fredericia, Denmark).

"Biomethanol production system and method" was invented by Kristoffer Moos (Gelsted, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biomethanol production system and method is provided. The system comprises (a) a feed stream comprising methane, water, and carbon dioxide; (b) a reformer reactor capable of reacting the feed stream to form a syngas mixture comprising hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide; (c) a methanol reactor capable of reacting the syngas mixture to form biomethanol product; (d) a wash column comprising the syngas mixture and the b...