MUMBAI, India, July 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517065968 A) filed by Atlas Agro Holding Ag, Zug, Switzerland, on July 10, for 'high energy recovery process for the production of nitric acid.'

Inventor(s) include Ostbo, Petter; and Skjerve, Ottar Bernt.

The application for the patent was published on July 25, under issue no. 30/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A high energy recovery process in nitric acid production process recovers, utilizes and/or stores heat energy in at least four stages. In the first stage, a first heat energy is recovered at the catalytic oxidation of ammonia to nitric oxide to generate high-pressure steam used for a first ele...