US Patent Issued on Oct. 7 for "Process for capturing CO2 and process for continuously regenerating solvent" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,185, issued on Oct. 7.

"Process for capturing CO2 and process for continuously regenerating solvent" was invented by Jadson Claudio Belchior (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Geison Voga Pereira (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Plinio Cesar De Carvalho Pinto (Sao Mateus, Brazil), Thais Vieira Batista (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Pedro Caffaro Vicentini (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Luciana Neves Loureiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes a process for capturing CO2 using an optimized mixture of water and alcohols with alkali hydroxides, such as KOH and NaOH, for absorption of CO2 from gaseous mixtures...