ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,675, issued on Jan. 13.
"Methods and equipment for treatment of odorous gas streams" was invented by Stephen R. Temple (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Howard Everett Whitney (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Bjorn Temple (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for removing noxious, hazardous, toxic, mutagenic, and/or carcinogenic compounds and/or precursor compounds from a comingled gas, liquid, and/or solid stream is described. In one embodiment, the method is used to prepare the stream for feeding to an oxidizer, such as a thermal oxidizer, to reduce the amount of particulate matter discharged by the oxidizer and includes passing t...