US Patent Issued to SUEZ INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 11 for "Method and furnace for incinerating organic matter derived from the treatment of industrial or agricultural waste or wastewater, such as sludge" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,626, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SUEZ INTERNATIONAL (Paris).

"Method and furnace for incinerating organic matter derived from the treatment of industrial or agricultural waste or wastewater, such as sludge" was invented by Jean-Louis Bourdais (Chateaubriant, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for incinerating organic matter derived from the treatment of wastewater, or of industrial or agricultural waste, such as sludge and notably treatment plant sludge, is in a fluidized-bed incineration furnace, the furnace including a chamber in the lower part of which there is a bed of particles, preferentially sand, constituti...