US Patent Issued to ECOCHEM AUSTRALIA on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for automatically cleaning converters with heated fluids" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,699, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ECOCHEM AUSTRALIA PTY LTD (Upper Plenty, Australia).

"Systems and methods for automatically cleaning converters with heated fluids" was invented by Geoffrey Literski (Upper Plenty, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cleaning a converter, the method including the steps of: providing a heating unit for heating a cleaning fluid; providing a ring main for continuous circulation of heated cleaning fluid around the ring main; connecting the heating unit to the ring main; connecting the ring main to the converter to enable delivery of heated cleaning fluid to the converter; and providi...