US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Dec. 2 for "Process for onboard carbon capture using CO 2 stripping and heat recovery" (Michigan, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,381, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Process for onboard carbon capture using CO 2 stripping and heat recovery" was invented by Tianyu Gao (Beaverton, Ore.), Alexander Voice (Detroit) and Esam Z. Hamad (Brighton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system for capturing and recovering carbon dioxide (CO2) from multiple distinct waste heat sources. The system includes an absorber for extracting CO2 from exhaust gas into a solvent stream selective for absorbing CO2 and creating a rich solvent stream. A solvent regenerator converts a first fraction of the rich solvent s...