US Patent Issued to Universiteit Gent on Nov. 4 for "Method to capture and utilize CO 2 and an installation for capturing and utilizing CO 2" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,143, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium).

"Method to capture and utilize CO 2 and an installation for capturing and utilizing CO 2" was invented by Varun Singh (Ghent, Belgium), Vladimir Galvita (Lochristi, Belgium), Mark Saeys (Zottegem, Belgium) and Guy Marin (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cyclic method for capturing and utilizing CO2 contained in a gas stream. The method uses three different materials, a first solid material, a second solid material and a CO2 sorbent material.In a first step a first gas stream comprising CO2 and at least one reductant is br...