US Patent Issued to Aker Carbon Capture Norway AS on Sept. 23 for "Aqueous CO2 absorbent comprising 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol and 3-aminopropanol" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,227, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Aker Carbon Capture Norway AS (Lysaker, Norway).

"Aqueous CO2 absorbent comprising 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol and 3-aminopropanol" was invented by Karl Anders Hoff (Trondheim, Norway), Thor Mejdell (Trondheim, Norway), Inna Kim (Trondheim, Norway), Andreas Grimstvedt (Trondheim, Norway) and Eirik Falck Da Silva (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aqueous CO2 absorbent comprising a combination of 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol (AMP) and 3-aminopropanol (AP), or AMP and 4-aminobutanol (AB), is described. A method for capturing CO2 from a CO2 containing gas using the mentioned abs...