US Patent Issued to SULZER MANAGEMENT on July 22 for "Structured packing bed for high pressure mass transfer and/or heat exchange applications" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,416, issued on July 22, was assigned to SULZER MANAGEMENT AG (Winterthur, Switzerland).

"Structured packing bed for high pressure mass transfer and/or heat exchange applications" was invented by Mark Pilling (Jenks, Okla.) and Ilja Ausner (Oehningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structured packing bed for a column is provided. The structured packing bed comprises at least two layers stacked vertically above each other, and at least two of the layers each comprise at least one structured cross-channel packing element having a specific surface area of 60 to 500 m2/m3 and a height of 50 to less than 150 mm. At least 50% of t...