US Patent Issued to Sumitomo SHI FW Energia on Dec. 30 for "Method of preventing blockage of circulating bed material in a circulating fluidized bed reactor arrangement" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,244, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sumitomo SHI FW Energia OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method of preventing blockage of circulating bed material in a circulating fluidized bed reactor arrangement" was invented by Ari Kettunen (Leppavirta, Finland) and Teri Hiltunen (Leppavirta, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preventing blockage of circulating bed material in a circulating fluidized bed reactor includes collecting a continuously flowing bed of solid particles in a gas lock in a return leg of a reactor, measuring gas lock bed pressure values within the bed of the particles, generating a gas lock bed height indication...