US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on June 17 for "Methods and systems for the conversion of carbon dioxide to chemicals and/or fuels utilizing steam electrolysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,417, issued on June 17, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for the conversion of carbon dioxide to chemicals and/or fuels utilizing steam electrolysis" was invented by Zihan Huang (Emeryville, Calif.) and Lin Li (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes heating a steam feed stream received from a reactor unit in a first heat exchanger using an anode effluent from an anode of an electrolyzer as a heat transfer medium to generate a first heated steam effluent, heating the first heated steam effluent in a second heat exchanger using a cathode effluent from a cathode of...