US Patent Issued to WHITEFOX TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 10 for "Heat integrated process and system for organic solvent production using vapor recompression" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,686, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to WHITEFOX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (London).

"Heat integrated process and system for organic solvent production using vapor recompression" was invented by Jin Ming Zhou (Calgary, Canada), Thiago Righi (Calgary, Canada), Chenxu Shi (Calgary, Canada), Stephan Blum (Calgary, Canada) and Virginia Andrade (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distillation and dehydration system is provided that produces an anhydrous organic solvent. The provided system includes vapor recompression (e.g., a mechanical or thermal vapor recompression unit) to recover heat from a rectification-distillation section (...