ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,918, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Systems for removing carbon dioxide from a carbon dioxide containing gas, and related methods" was invented by Yiyan Chen (Houston), Z. Frank Zheng (Sugar Land, Texas), Keyur Pandya (Sugar Land, Texas) and Yang He (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for recovering carbon dioxide from a carbon dioxide-containing gas includes an absorber configured to absorb carbon dioxide from the carbon dioxide-containing gas with a non-aqueous solvent to form a carbon dioxide-lean gas, the non-aqueous solvent comprising a nitrogenous ba...