US Patent Issued to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING on Feb. 10 for "Continuous thermal compression of hydrogen" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,575, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Spring, Texas).

"Continuous thermal compression of hydrogen" was invented by Marcel Staedter (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous thermal hydrogen compression system, and methods of thermally compressing hydrogen, are disclosed. A hydrogenation module accepts a hydrogen gas stream to be absorbed or adsorbed to a lean carrier stream through heat removal, thereby producing a heat output and a rich carrier stream containing absorbed or adsorbed hydrogen. A pump, connected to an output of the hydrogenation module, increases the pressure...