US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL on Jan. 20 for "CO 2 hydrogenation to oxygenates using plasma catalysis" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,068, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Liverpool, Great Britain).

"CO 2 hydrogenation to oxygenates using plasma catalysis" was invented by Xin Tu (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Yaolin Wang (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for forming C1 to C5 alcohol, carboxylic acid, or mixture thereof from carbon dioxide and hydrogen is described. The apparatus comprises: a dielectric barrier discharge, DBD, device arranged to generate a plasma; and a passageway having an inlet for the carbon dioxide and the hydrogen and an outlet for the C1 to C5 alcohol, carboxylic acid, or mixtu...