US Patent Issued to NORAM ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTORS on July 15 for "Kraft pulping foul condensate treatment process and apparatus" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,813, issued on July 15, was assigned to NORAM ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTORS LTD. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Kraft pulping foul condensate treatment process and apparatus" was invented by Rohan Bandekar (Vancouver, Canada), James Theodore Wearing (Vancouver, Canada) and Jonathan Edward Foan (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and systems for treating Kraft pulping foul condensate are provided. The processes comprise removing volatile compounds from the foul condensate to produce a resulting condensate and removing methanol from the resulting condensate. The systems comprise a volatile compound removal stage and a met...