US Patent Issued to TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT on May 20 for "Method and apparatus for producing hydrocarbon product and use" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,124, issued on May 20, was assigned to TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for producing hydrocarbon product and use" was invented by Pekka Simell (Espoo, Finland), Muhammad Qureshi (Espoo, Finland) and Elmeri Pienihaekkinen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing a hydrocarbons product from plastic containing material, wherein the plastic containing material is subjected into a pyrolysis reactor, steam is fed into the pyrolysis reactor, and the plastic containing material is pyrolyzed in the presence of the steam by using a ...