ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,491, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Unconventional Gas Solutions LLC (Houston).
"System and method for producing renewable natural gas from biogas" was invented by Benjamin Bikson (Newton, Mass.) and Marc Straub (Cypress, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved method and apparatus for removing acid gases and other impurities from raw biogas streams, such as biogas from landfills or biogas from controlled anaerobic digestion, is disclosed. The method provides efficient generation of high-purity renewable natural gas from raw biogas. The biogas is treated in a multi-stage membrane system integrated with compression equipmen...