ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,827, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ZoneFlow Reactor Technologies LLC (Windsor, Conn.).
"Green methanol production" was invented by Jonathan Jay Feinstein (Windsor, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Steam reforming, water separation, and hydrogen separation by membrane can be performed sequentially on a mixture of steam and a hydrocarbon. A hydrogen-rich permeate stream from the hydrogen membrane can be used as fuel for combustion heating, leaving a retentate mixture of a prescribed ratio of hydrogen to oxides of carbon. The retentate can be compressed and synthesized to methanol in a methanol synthesis reactor. The synthesize...