US Patent Issued to Big Blue Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Method and apparatus to condense magnesium vapor using a fluid-cooled heat exchanger" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,904, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Big Blue Technologies Inc. (Cheyenne, Wyo.).

"Method and apparatus to condense magnesium vapor using a fluid-cooled heat exchanger" was invented by Boris Chubukov (Boulder, Colo.), Aaron Palumbo (Denver) and Jeremiah Jeffries (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that uses a high-temperature condenser to collect magnesium produced by thermal reduction, electrolysis, or distillation. The condenser is a common heat exchanger design (shell/tube, plate/plate, etc.) and uses a heat transfer fluid to cool and condense magnesium gas, e.g., to 200-900deg C. under vacuum or pr...