ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,067, issued on April 1, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).
"Gasification of high-ash feedstock" was invented by Jacob Shelley (Amsterdam), Joachim Wolff (Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany), Thomas Von Kossak (Reichshof, Germany), Eduardo Ribeiro (Leiden, Netherlands), Nan Liu (The Hague, Netherlands) and Steffen Jancker (Steinhagen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A residue stream comprising liquid hydrocarbons and metal-rich solid particles is reacted with an oxidant stream in a gasifier to produce a syngas stream that is quenched in a water bath. The risk of plugging in the water lines is reduced...