ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,280, issued on May 13, was assigned to Grant Prideco Inc. (Houston).
"Method for continuous thermal separation of a multi-component substance" was invented by Agnar Hellenes (Forde, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for thermal separation of a substance flowing into a treatment chamber by use of a separation apparatus includes a vessel and a heating device. The vessel has a vessel wall with an inner surface enclosing a treatment chamber of a length lc, a height H and a width W. The vessel includes at least one substance inlet and at least one first outlet and at least one second outlet for non-evaporable and evaporable p...