US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SURREY on Aug. 19 for "Continuous process for sustainable production of hydrogen" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,547, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SURREY (Guildford, Great Britain).

"Continuous process for sustainable production of hydrogen" was invented by Bahman Amini Horri (Guildford, Great Britain) and Sai Gu (Guildford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method of producing hydrogen. The method comprises conducting a thermochemical reaction by contacting a metal, or an alloy thereof, with steam to produce a metal oxide and/or a metal hydroxide and hydrogen. The method then comprises contacting the metal oxide and/or the metal hydroxide produced in the thermochemical reaction with wate...