US Patent Issued to UOP on March 18 for "Apparatuses and processes for the recovery of carbon dioxide streams" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,406, issued on March 18, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Apparatuses and processes for the recovery of carbon dioxide streams" was invented by Bradley Russell (Carol Stream, Ill.), Kyle Cuellar (Fulshear, Texas), Eleftherios Adamopoulos (Gurnee, Ill.), Mark Schott (Palatine, Ill.) and Bhargav Sharma (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and apparatuses for recovering a high purity carbon dioxide stream. A first separation zone that may include a cryogenic fractionation column provides the high-purity CO2 stream. A vapor stream from the cryogenic fractionation column is passed to a second separation zone...