US Patent Issued to Desotec on Oct. 14 for "Method of avoiding self-combustion of carbonaceous adsorbent impregnated with a catalyst" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,824, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Desotec NV (Roeselare, Belgium).

"Method of avoiding self-combustion of carbonaceous adsorbent impregnated with a catalyst" was invented by Rikie Seynaeve (Roeselare, Belgium) and Johan Craeye (Izegem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a method for avoiding self combustion of carbonaceous adsorbent comprising a catalyst, the method comprising blowing air through the carbonaceous adsorbent thereby oxidizing catalyst and/or components that are in a reduced state and simultaneously cooling the carbonaceous adsorbent."

The patent was filed on Oct. 19, 2022, und...