US Patent Issued to LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY on May 13 for "System and method for attached growth biological treatment and activated carbon treatment of a wastewater stream" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,134, issued on May 13, was assigned to LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC (Houston).

"System and method for attached growth biological treatment and activated carbon treatment of a wastewater stream" was invented by Simon Larson (Wausau, Wis.) and Eric Martin (Tomahawk, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for treating a wastewater stream includes delivering a wastewater stream to an attached growth reactor to provide an amount of activated carbon and an attached growth support media having active biological material thereon within the attached growth reactor. The method also includes contacting the wastewater stream with attached growth...