ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,951, issued on May 20, was assigned to POWERHOUSE ENERGY GROUP PLC (Bridgend, Great Britain).
"Treatment of waste material" was invented by David Ryan (Bridgend, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating comminuted waste material, the method comprises: a) feeding comminuted waste material into a heating chamber (28); b) introducing steam into the heating chamber (28); c) contacting the steam and comminuted waste material; d) heating the steam and comminuted waste material to generate a combustible gas; and e) altering or controlling the ratio of steam to comminuted waste material such that the generated combus...