US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Sept. 2 for "Alternating fixed and fluidized bed reactor systems and processes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,171, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Alternating fixed and fluidized bed reactor systems and processes" was invented by Huping Luo (San Ramon, Calif.), Lin Li (San Ramon, Calif.), Alexander Kuperman (San Ramon, Calif.) and Xiaoying Ouyang (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure refers to systems and methods for producing hydrogen among other products. In some embodiments the methods comprise sequentially conducting a cracking step in a fixed bed mode and conducting a flowing step in a fluidized bed mode. Such sequential processes may result in a number of a...