US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Jan. 20 for "Solid carbon production device and solid carbon production method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,701, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Solid carbon production device and solid carbon production method" was invented by Takuya Hirata (Tokyo) and Kouji Horizoe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a solid carbon production facility including: a separation facility configured to separate a carbon dioxide gas contained in a produced gas produced by a blast furnace; a reaction facility configured to heat a fuel gas whose main component is a methane gas by using a heating facility and decompose the methane gas into solid carbon and a hydrogen gas; and a production facility config...