US Patent Issued to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE on March 25 for "Fuel processing system and method for sulfur bearing fuels" (Ohio, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,524, issued on March 25, was assigned to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Columbus, Ohio).

"Fuel processing system and method for sulfur bearing fuels" was invented by Paul E. George II (Powell, Ohio), Vincent J. Contini (Powell, Ohio), Greg A. Whyatt (West Richland, Wash.) and Douglas A. Thornton (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel processing system and method for a sulfur bearing fuel include a hydrodesulfurization reactor followed by an adsorbent bed for removing sulfur or sulfur containing species from the fuel. In certain embodiments, the adsorbent bed is a ZnO bed. In another embodiment, a fuel processing system ...