US Patent Issued to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING on Nov. 18 for "Air separation processes using zeolite ITQ-55" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,458, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Spring, Texas).

"Air separation processes using zeolite ITQ-55" was invented by Yu Wang (Lebanon, N.J.), Edward W. Corcoran Jr. (Nazareth, Pa.), Pavel Kortunov (Flemington, N.J.) and Avelino Corma Canos (Valencia, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to the adsorption and separation of fluid components, such as oxygen, in a feed stream, such as air, using zeolite ITQ-55 as the adsorbent. A process is disclosed for adsorbing oxygen from a feed stream containing oxygen, nitrogen and argon. The process comprises passing the fee...