US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude on March 25 for "Method for improving the homogenization of the temperatures in a steam methane reformer by adjusting the power distribution" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,132, issued on March 25, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Method for improving the homogenization of the temperatures in a steam methane reformer by adjusting the power distribution" was invented by Diana Tudorache (Bures sur Yvette, France), Guillaume Lodier (Senlisse, France), Fouad Ammouri (Massy, France) and Julien Lagarde (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of improving an endothermic process in a furnace utilizing steps a) calibrating the simplified physical model of step c3) by measuring one or more tube temperature for at least a tub...