US Patent Issued to Utility Global on Aug. 5 for "Integrated hydrogen production method and system" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,678, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Utility Global Inc. (Houston).

"Integrated hydrogen production method and system" was invented by Matthew Dawson (Katy, Texas), Nicholas Farandos (Bray, Ireland) and Jin Dawson (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein discussed is a hydrogen production system comprising a first reactor zone and a second reactor zone, wherein both reactor zones comprise an ionically conducting membrane, wherein the first zone is capable of reforming a hydrocarbon electrochemically and the second zone is capable of performing water gas shift reactions electrochemically, wherein the electrochemical reformi...