ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,055, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sustainable Energy Solutions Inc. (Orem, Utah).
"Component separations" was invented by Larry Baxter (Orem, Utah) and Stephanie Burt (Provo, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for separating components are disclosed. A process liquid stream is provided that contains a first component and a second component. The process liquid stream is cooled to near a temperature at which the second component forms a solid. The process liquid stream is expanded into a vessel such that the first component and a first portion of the second component vaporize to form a process vapor stream an...