US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on June 17 for "Applying metal alkaline and microwave pyrolysis for separating and capturing carbon dioxide from exhaust gas" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,117, issued on June 17, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Applying metal alkaline and microwave pyrolysis for separating and capturing carbon dioxide from exhaust gas" was invented by Philip D. Nguyen (Houston), Ronald Glen Dusterhoft (Houston) and Ronald Bosch (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including reacting carbon dioxide from exhaust gas produced at a wellsite to produce a solid metal carbonate, and microwaving the solid metal carbonate to produce recovered carbon dioxide and solid metal alkaline. A system for carrying out the method is also provided."

The patent was filed on Dec. 19,...