ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,434, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).
"Method for conditioning an electrolysis system" was invented by Dennis F. van der Vliet (Skokie, Ill.), Chunqing Liu (Arlington Heights, Ill.) and Xueliang Dong (Schaumburg, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A start-up process for conditioning an electrolysis system containing ionically conductive membrane, such as a polyelectrolyte multilayer coated proton exchange membranes, to reduce the break-in period is described. The conditioning involves heating the electrolysis feed, the electrolysis system, or both at a temperature above the desired operating temperature ...