US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on Oct. 6 for "Microwave regeneration of carbon dioxide sorbents" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,256, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Microwave regeneration of carbon dioxide sorbents" was invented by Gyoung Gug Jang (Knoxville, Tenn.), Radu Custelcean (Knoxville, Tenn.), Xin Sun (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Constantinos Tsouris (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for regenerating an amine-containing sorbent material useful in CO2 capture, the method comprising exposing an amine-containing sorbent-CO2 complex to microwave radiation to result in release of CO2 and regenerated amine-containing sorbent that is uncomplexed with CO2, wherein the amine-containing sorbent-CO2 comple...