US Patent Issued to Next Generation Elements on Dec. 2 for "Method and treatment facility for physical and thermochemical treatment of biomass" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,460, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Next Generation Elements GmbH (Feldkirchen an der Donau, Austria).

"Method and treatment facility for physical and thermochemical treatment of biomass" was invented by Andreas Hackl (Gmunden, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for physical and thermochemical treatment of biomass, the biomass moisture content is reduced in a dryer and ammonia (NH3) is also released from the biomass during drying. The dried biomass is then either pyrolyzed in a pyrolysis reactor and the pyrolysis gas is forwarded to and combusted in a combustion device to form flue gas, or is combusted in a combusti...