ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,317, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CRI, HF (Kopavogur, Iceland).
"Heat integration" was invented by Bjorn Hardarson (Reykjavik, Iceland), Olafur Hrafn Bjornsson (Reykjavik, Iceland), Emeric Sarron (Paris) and Armen Eduardo Kodjaian (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for heat integration between a chemical synthesis plant that runs an exothermic reaction and (ii) and a partner plant that generates a working fluid such as steam (e.g., runs a power cycle). The present disclosure describes both internal and external heat integration. Internal heat integration may provide heat from the exothermic reactio...