US Patent Issued to BD Energy Systems on May 20 for "Low CO2 emissions methanol process and production apparatus" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,816, issued on May 20, was assigned to BD Energy Systems LLC (Houston).

"Low CO2 emissions methanol process and production apparatus" was invented by Daniel Joseph Barnett (Katy, Texas), Gregory Bryan Cargle (Burlington, Texas), Shashi Prakash Singh (Sugar Land, Texas) and Venancz Laszlo Patrovics (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and apparatus for low-CO2 emissions methanol production using a high efficiency (less than90%) reformer fired with a low-carbon fuel (C:Hgreater than0.03) to produce syngas. CO2 is removed from the syngas, and the CO2-lean syngas is fed to a methanol synthesis loop. A purge stream ...