US Patent Issued to BASF on Dec. 9 for "Elimination of recycle compressor in dehydration and contaminant removal systems" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,468, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.).

"Elimination of recycle compressor in dehydration and contaminant removal systems" was invented by William B. Dolan (Iselin, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system including at least two adsorbent bed containing vessels in adsorption mode, where one has a high pressure PI and one has a low pressure P3, and at least one adsorbent bed containing vessel in regeneration mode. The vessel that is in regeneration mode may have a pressure P2 that is intermediate to the pressures PI and P3 of each of the vessels that are in adsorption mode. The sy...