US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Oct. 28 for "Hydrothermal liquefaction system with heat exchanger network" (Washington, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,649, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Hydrothermal liquefaction system with heat exchanger network" was invented by Andrew J. Schmidt (Richland, Wash.), Lesley J. Snowden-Swan (Ellensburg, Wash.) and David B. Spry (Prairieville, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) system has a biomass slurry flow path with a first pump and a first heat exchanger network downstream of the first pump. The first heat exchanger network includes plurality of heat exchangers in a parallel, series, and/or series-parallel flow arrangement. The biomass slurry flow path extends ...