US Patent Issued to Air Products and Chemicals on Jan. 27 for "Apparatus and process for pre-liquefaction fluid processing for improved liquefaction operations" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,267, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Apparatus and process for pre-liquefaction fluid processing for improved liquefaction operations" was invented by Pratik Misra (Breinigsville, Pa.), David M. Espie (Lansdale, Pa.) and Gowri Krishnamurthy (Sellersville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and process for processing of a fluid (e.g. hydrogen) for liquefaction can permit a reduction in power consumption and also an improvement in operational efficiency in flexibility. Embodiments can be configured to account for large variations in feed to be provided for liquefaction ...