MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517084423 A) filed by Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie - S. R. L., Florence, Italy, on Sept. 5, for 'system for producing solid carbon from co2 and relative method.'

Inventor(s) include Ganiger, Manjush; and Pandey, Maneesh.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "System (100) for producing solid carbon C from carbon dioxide CO2, for example from CO2 captured from a power plant. The system comprises a methanation unit (110) fluidly coupled to a carbon capture system and configured to receive carbon dioxide CO2 and perform methanation of carbon dioxide CO2 to produce at least methane CH4 and heat, and a pyrolysis unit (120) configured to receive methane CH4 and heat, and perform pyrolysis of methane CH4 to produce hydrogen H2 and solid carbon C, in which the methanation unit (110) and the pyrolysis unit (120) are thermally and fluidly coupled so that at least gaseous hydrogen H2 is supplied from the pyrolysis unit (120) to the methanation unit (110) and heat is provided from the methanation unit (110) to the pyrolysis unit (120)."

The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 04, 2024, under International application No.PCT/EP2024/025102.

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