US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Sept. 30 for "Gas separation apparatus and method of gas separation" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,487, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Gas separation apparatus and method of gas separation" was invented by Kenichi Noda (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas separation apparatus includes a gas supply part and a zeolite membrane. The gas supply part supplies a mixed gas at a pressure greater than or equal to 10 atm and less than or equal to 200 atm. The mixed gas contains at least CH4, CO2, and N2. A water content of the mixed gas is made less than or equal to 3000 ppm. The zeolite membrane allows CO2 and N2 in the mixed gas to permeate therethrough, to thereby separate CO2 an...