US Patent Issued to MHR Holdings PTE. Ltd. on March 18 for "Method of operating a fixed-bed gasifier for producing a product gas from pourable carbonaceous particles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,653, issued on March 18, was assigned to MHR Holdings PTE. Ltd. (Singapur, Singapore).

"Method of operating a fixed-bed gasifier for producing a product gas from pourable carbonaceous particles" was invented by Michael Hofmeister (Dresden, Germany) and Horst Dressler (Muehlhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a fixed-bed gasifier includes positioning a tapping element at a first point above a bed of fuel particles, lowering the tapping element into the fuel particles along a first linear path to form a first linear passage in the fuel particles, raising the tapping element to retract the tapping eleme...