US Patent Issued to Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support on Dec. 30 for "Granular sludge reactor system comprising an external separator" (Dutch, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,379, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support (Saint Maurice, France).

"Granular sludge reactor system comprising an external separator" was invented by Santiago Pacheco-Ruiz (Maassluis, Netherlands), Thierry Alphonse Arnaud (Le Thor, France), Jeronimus Gerardus Maria Van Der Lubbe (Rijswijk, Netherlands) and Hendrik Richard Paul La Vos (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating an aqueous fluid comprising a biodegradable organic substance in an installation comprising an upflow bioreactor containing a sludge bed, said sludge bed comprising biomass, an external sep...