US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi UBE Cement on June 17 for "Biomass solid fuel manufacturing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,250, issued on June 17, was assigned to Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corp. (Tokyo).

"Biomass solid fuel manufacturing device" was invented by Shigeya Hayashi (Tokyo), Yuusuke Hiraiwa (Tokyo) and Nobuyuki Ooi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biomass solid fuel manufacturing device (100) includes: a rotary kiln (2) that carbonizes a biomass molded body molded from raw material biomass. The rotary kiln (2) includes a kiln body (20), a raw material supply unit (30) that supplies the biomass molded body to an upstream end portion of the kiln body (20), and an inert gas supply unit (50) that supplies inert gas to an upstream end portion in...