US Patent Issued to ICM on June 3 for "Process for evaporating water from stillage" (Missouri, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,706, issued on June 3, was assigned to ICM Inc. (Colwich, Kan.).

"Process for evaporating water from stillage" was invented by Charles C. Gallop (Gower, Mo.) and Keith Tjaden (Clearwater, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes energy efficient process to distill a process stream in a production facility. A process uses multiple effect evaporators, ranging from one evaporator to eight evaporators in each effect. The process arrangement shows an example of four effect evaporators, with a zero-effect evaporator having a single evaporator, a first-effect evaporator having a set of three evaporators, a second-effect ...