ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,550, issued on May 27, was assigned to PAUL WURTH S.A. (Luxembourg).
"Method for providing raw material for an industrial process" was invented by Klaus Peter Kinzel (Sandweiler, Luxembourg), Georg Struber (Frisange, Luxembourg) and Juan Luis De Frutos Santamaria (Schifflange, Luxembourg).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing raw material for an industrial process, in particular for steel production, the method including torrefying a torrefaction material, which contains biomass, in a reactor by thermochemically treating the torrefaction material at 200deg C. to 600deg C., to obtain bio coal, extracting the bio coal fr...