US Patent Issued to NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS on March 25 for "Devices, systems, facilities and processes for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,546, issued on March 25, was assigned to NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS LLC (Houston).

"Devices, systems, facilities and processes for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities" was invented by Ben Heichelbech (Houston), Ivan Van der Walt (Conroe, Texas), Connor Rivard (Houston) and Alex Thompson (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities are disclosed herein. An example carbon capture process involves cooling a flue gas stream using at least one gas-to-air heat exchanger disposed upstream of a carbon dioxide (CO2) absorber. Another examp...