US Patent Issued to Linde on Oct. 14 for "Method for operating an air separation plant, having a distillation column system, a heat exchanger and an adsorber, and air separation plant" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,593, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Linde GmbH (Pullach, Germany).

"Method for operating an air separation plant, having a distillation column system, a heat exchanger and an adsorber, and air separation plant" was invented by Stefan Lochner (Grafing, Germany), Ralph Spori (Egling, Germany), Christoph Windmeier (Geretsried, Germany), Pascal Freko (Eurasburg, Germany) and Andreas Obermeier (Egling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an air separation plant having a distillation column system, a heat exchanger, and an adsorber, wherein, in a first time period, a first operating mode is carried out and, in...