US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK on Feb. 25 for "Systems, methods, and devices for methane conversion via gas recycling" (American, Thai Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,199, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for methane conversion via gas recycling" was invented by Eric D. Wachsman (Fulton, Md.), Dongxia Liu (Clarksville, Md.) and Mann Sakbodin (Bangkok).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first stage of a methane conversion system, at least some methane (CH4) in an input gas flow stream can be converted into C2 hydrocarbons, hydrogen gas (H2), and aromatics to provide a first processed stream. The conversion can be direct non-oxidative methane conversion (DNMC). At least some of the aromatics can be removed fro...