US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, The Kansai Electric Power on Sept. 2 for "CO 2 recovery unit and CO 2 recovery method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,422, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (Tokyo) and The Kansai Electric Power Co. Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"CO 2 recovery unit and CO 2 recovery method" was invented by Hiroshi Tanaka (Tokyo), Takuya Hirata (Tokyo), Tatsuya Tsujiuchi (Tokyo), Takashi Kamijo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shimpei Kawasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CO2 recovery unit includes a CO2 absorber that brings a gas having a low CO2 concentration into countercurrent contact with a CO2 absorbent to remove CO2 from the gas. The CO2 recovery unit further includes a first absorbent circulation line that supplies a CO2 abs...