ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,004, issued on June 10, was assigned to ExxonMobil Technology & Engineering Co. (Annandale, N.J.).
"Acid gas scrubbing methods featuring amine phase separation for hydrogen sulfide capture" was invented by Carla S. Pereira (Bridgewater, N.J.), Jenny P. Seagraves (Spring, Texas), P. Scott Northrop (Lexington, Ky.), Michael Siskin (Westfield, N.J.), Thomas Ingram (Mannheim, Germany), Gerald Vorberg (Speyer, Germany), Martin Ernst (Heidelberg, Germany) and Georg K. Sieder (Bad Duerkheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Capture of hydrogen sulfide from a gas mixture may be accomplished using an aqueous solution comprising an amine...