US Patent Issued to Saipem on Oct. 14 for "Post-combustion CO2 capture with heat recovery and integration" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,799, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Saipem S.P.A. (Milan).

"Post-combustion CO2 capture with heat recovery and integration" was invented by Sylvain Lefebvre (Saint-Gebriel-de-Valcartier, Canada) and Ferrere Clerveaux (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "CO2 capture processes and systems can be improved by recovering thermal energy from particular streams for reuse in the stripping stage. Thermal energy can be recovered from the overhead gas stream of a stripper operated under vacuum pressure conditions, and thermal energy can also be recovered from a flue gas. A heat transfer circuit can be implemented for recovering th...