US Patent Issued to VALMET on Aug. 12 for "Method and system for continuously treating biomass material" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,184, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to VALMET AB (Sundsvall, Sweden).

"Method and system for continuously treating biomass material" was invented by Francois Lambert (Sundsvall, Sweden), Patrik Pettersson (Alno, Sweden) and Peter Bjorklund (Umea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for continuously treating biomass material includes: feeding the biomass material into a substantially vertically arranged pressurized vessel; adding steam to said pressurized vessel for hydrothermal treatment of the biomass material, wherein said adding steam comprises adding steam at a lower portion of the pressurized vessel; discharging the ...