ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,330, issued on April 22, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).
"Dehydration of carbon dioxide" was invented by Paul Higginbotham (Guildford, Great Britain), Dingjun Wu (Macungie, Pa.), Gowri Krishnamurthy (Sellersville, Pa.), Todd M. Moyle (Allentown, Pa.), Michelle Roaf (Witley, Great Britain) and Mozhgan Alimohammadi Zanjani (Flemington, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for purifying a carbon dioxide feed stream in which the carbon dioxide feed stream is cooled and partially condensed to remove water upstream of an adsorber to produce a dry carbon dioxide stream. The dry carbon diox...