US Patent Issued to BASF, thyssenkrupp, thyssenkrupp Uhde on July 8 for "Process and integrated plant for the treatment of the carbon oxides formed in the production of aluminum" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,926, issued on July 8, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany) and thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany).

"Process and integrated plant for the treatment of the carbon oxides formed in the production of aluminum" was invented by Frederik Scheiff (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Marc Leduc (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Andreas Bode (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Karsten Bueker (Dortmund, Germany) and Nicolai Antweiler (Essen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process can be used for the treatment of an offgas stream, which is formed in a plant for the production of aluminum by electrolytic re...