US Patent Issued to CASALE on Nov. 4 for "Process and reactor for catalytic oxidation of ammonia" (Swiss, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,819, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CASALE SA (Lugano, Switzerland).

"Process and reactor for catalytic oxidation of ammonia" was invented by Iacopo Cerea (Lugano, Switzerland), Ermanno Filippi (Castagnola, Switzerland), Luca Redaelli (Drezzo, Italy) and Pasquale Talarico (Viganello, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the catalytic oxidation of ammonia, comprising: passing an ammonia-containing gas, in the presence of oxygen, over a catalyst contained in a reactor, obtaining a process gas containing nitrogen oxides, and cooling said process gas with a heat exchanger accommodated in the reactor, wherein a porti...