ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,818, issued on Oct. 14.
"Induced circulation among integrated bubbling zones" was invented by David Pallares (Gothenburg, Sweden), Martin Seemann (Gothenburg, Sweden), Henrik Strom (Stenungsund, Sweden), Henrik Thunman (Partille, Sweden), Anton Larsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Christer Gustavsson (Karlstad, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects provide for a fluidized bed reactor comprising a container having a bed of bed solids and a splashgenerator configured to impart a directed momentum to a portion of the bed solids. A bedwall may separate the bed solids into first and second reaction zones, and the directed mome...