ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,731, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).
"Method and apparatus for co-generating electricity in a process plant integrated with a thermal power generator using feedwater" was invented by Alexander Roesch (Butzbach, Germany) and Teja Schmid McGuinness (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for co-generating electricity in a process plant using feedwater, where the process plant is integrated with a thermal power generator, is provided. The method includes obtaining a pressurized stream of hot feedwater from a f...