US Patent Issued to China University of Petroleum-Beijing on May 20 for "Method of nano-armored foam reinforced geological storage of carbon dioxide" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,490, issued on May 20, was assigned to China University of Petroleum-Beijing (Beijing).

"Method of nano-armored foam reinforced geological storage of carbon dioxide" was invented by Qichao Lv (Beijing), Tongke Zhou (Beijing), Juan Zhang (Beijing), Ya Zhao (Beijing), Honglei Zhan (Beijing), Rong Zheng (Beijing), Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh (Beijing), Mehdi Ostadhassan (Beijing) and Zhaoxia Dong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of nano-armored foam reinforced geological storage of carbon dioxide. A pre-CO2 slug, a surfactant foam slug, a nanoparticle-enhanced foaming liquid slug and a...