ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,132, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cambi Technology AS (Asker, Norway).

"Device for controlling thermal hydrolysis decompression and process plant comprising such device" was invented by Andreas Helland Lillebo (Oslo, Norway), Alexandru Botan (Reistad, Norway) and Hans Rasmus Holte (Reistad, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a device for controlling steam explosion of biomass having a dry solids content above 1%, a VS content of above 20%, and including abrasive material, in a pressure relief vessel, which includes one or more blowdown conduits having at their outlets an adjustable open area for ...