ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,393, issued on June 24, was assigned to CCT INTERNATIONAL (Antwerpen-Berchem, Belgium).
"Method for pyrolysis of waste material in an industrial process" was invented by Rik Van Meirhaeghe (Gavere, Belgium), Johannes Dingenis Van Der Endt (Antwerp, Belgium) and Dries Parmentier (Outrijve, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for pyrolysis of a mass of waste material, includes: providing a screw arrangement adapted to supply heat to the mass by mechanical shear; providing a reactor after the screw arrangement, adapted to supply heat to the mass in the absence of oxygen by heating the reactor wall; heating the mass to an exi...