US Patent Issued on Aug. 12 for "Bottom ash aggregate material and method for forming bottom ash aggregate material" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,722, issued on Aug. 12.

"Bottom ash aggregate material and method for forming bottom ash aggregate material" was invented by Michael J. Young (Stewartstown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a treated reclaimed bottom ash sand a treated reclaimed bottom ash sand. The method includes providing reclaimed bottom ash sand. The reclaimed bottom ash sand is contacted with an aqueous composition having 0.5 to 3.0M NaOH for a time greater than about 4 hours. The NaOH contacted reclaimed bottom ash sand is rinsed and decanted and iron is removed to form a treated reclaimed bottom ash sand having reduced hydrogen formatio...