US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude on June 17 for "Method for converting an existing industrial unit to produce hydrogen from ammonia" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,388, issued on June 17, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Method for converting an existing industrial unit to produce hydrogen from ammonia" was invented by Christoph Beyer (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Robert Breining (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Dieter Ulber (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for converting an existing steam methane reformer (SMR) to produce hydrogen via ammonia cracking is provided. The method can include the steps of: providing the existing SMR, wherein the SMR was formerly used to produce hydrog...