ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,054, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HALDOR TOPSOE A/S (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark).
"Synthesis gas on demand" was invented by Peter Molgaard Mortensen (Roskilde, Denmark), Kasper Emil Larsen (Humlebaek, Denmark) and Kim Aasberg-Petersen (Allerod, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for rapidly switching a metal-catalysed steam methane reforming reaction of a feed gas from a first steady-state reaction condition (A) to a second steady-state reaction condition (B) or vice-versa. After applying a given voltage and/or feed gas flow, the system can work towards a thermal equilibration to reach steady state without a...