ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,183, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ZonePlow Reactor Technologies LLC (Windsor, Conn.).
"Methanol production method" was invented by Jonathan Jay Feinstein (Windsor, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Syngas is produced by a steam reforming unit with at least one of a bayonet reactor for reforming steam and a hydrocarbon, a recuperative burner, and a regenerative burner such that the steam reforming unit produces little or no steam in excess of the steam reforming process requirements. The syngas is then converted to methanol in a methanol synthesis unit. Compressors for the synthesis unit are driven by higher efficiency driv...