	US 12,077,259 B1
	Chemical collection and processing vessel and methods for fluid transfer at sea
Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson, Portland, OR (US); Brian Lee Moffat, Portland, OR (US); and Dominic Piro, Honolulu, HI (US)
Assigned to Lone Gull Holdings, Ltd., Portland, OR (US)
Filed by Lone Gull Holdings, Ltd., Portland, OR (US)
Filed on Feb. 9, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/438,077.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/446,236, filed on Feb. 16, 2023.
Int. Cl. B63B 35/44 (2006.01); B63B 27/34 (2006.01); C07C 29/152 (2006.01)

CPC B63B 35/44 (2013.01) [B63B 27/34 (2013.01); C07C 29/152 (2013.01); B63B 2035/4486 (2013.01)]

5 Claims

1. A method of forming methanol, the method comprising:

coupling a vessel to a wave energy conversion (WEC) device adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water, the vessel having seawater therein;

transferring hydrogen from the WEC to the vessel; and

while the vessel is floating on the body of water, degassing nitrogen and oxygen from the seawater on the vessel, then adding hydrochloric acid to the seawater on the vessel, then degassing carbon dioxide from the seawater on the vessel, and then reacting the hydrogen and the carbon dioxide to form methanol on the vessel.