C01B 21/0405
Purification or separation processes
Official title: {Purification or separation processes}
C01B21/0405 (Purification or separation processes) appears on 331 US grants and 201 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C01B- Granted patents
- 331
- Published applications
- 201
- Assignees
- 193
- Inventors
- 769
- Latest grant
- 17 Mar 2026
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| 2024 | 3 | 5 |
| 2025 | 1 | 9 |
| 2026 | 3 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Ambient air separation and SOEC front-end for ammonia synthesis gas production17 Mar 2026US 12,577,686 B2Haldor TopsøE A/S
- System for obtaining high purity nitrogen in nitrogen gas purification applications and a method thereof17 Feb 2026US 12,552,669 B2Mikropor Makina Sana Yi Ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi
- Integrated ammonia and sulfuric acid production plant and process20 Jan 2026US 12,528,752 B2Chemetics Inc.
- Apparatus, system and method for generating nitrogen gas from fuel-cell exhaust gas23 Sep 2025US 12,424,645 B2Micro Control Systems Ltd.
- Portable fluorine generator for on-site calibration20 Aug 2024US 12,065,359 B2APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- High efficiency electro-photocatalysts16 Jul 2026US 2026/0199827 A1
- Processes and apparatuses for treating nox separated from carbon dioxide28 May 2026US 2026/0145938 A1Uop LLC
- Combined Inert Gas and Instrument Air System for Marine Applications30 Apr 2026US 2026/0115651 A1Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
- Systems, methods, and techniques for processing hydrogen sulfide19 Mar 2026US 2026/0078001 A1Ohio State Innovation Foundation
- Floating power generation unit18 Dec 2025US 2025/0382035 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Process for separating components of a gas stream137US 4,701,187 AAir Products and Chemicals, Inc. · 1987
- Process for the separation/recovery of gases114US 6,179,900 B2GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH · 2001
- Layered manifold pressure swing adsorption device and method106US 6,565,635 B2QuestAir Technologies Inc. · 2003
- Liquid absorbent solutions for separating nitrogen from natural gas103US 6,136,222 ABend Research, Inc. · 2000
- Process and system for the production of dry, high purity nitrogen99US 4,931,070 AUnion Carbide Corporation · 1990