US Patent Issued to ICM on April 8 for "Systems and methods for recycling energy from distillation" (Missouri, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,584, issued on April 8, was assigned to ICM Inc..

"Systems and methods for recycling energy from distillation" was invented by Charles C. Gallop (Gower, Mo.), Keith Tjaden (Clearwater, Kan.), Christopher Riley William Gerken (Helena, Mo.) and Brandon Emme (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for recycling energy in a production plant includes a distillation device configured to generate a heated vapor in response to distillation and a system configured to recycle heat from the heated vapor back into the production plant. The system for recycling heat can include a fin-fan heat exchanger and a compressor or a heat...