US Patent Issued to Waste to Fuels on Nov. 25 for "Enhanced distillate oil recovery from thermal processing and catalytic cracking of biomass slurry" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,057, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Waste to Fuels Inc. (Edmonton, Canada).

"Enhanced distillate oil recovery from thermal processing and catalytic cracking of biomass slurry" was invented by Roderick Michael Facey (Edmonton, Canada) and Clayton Donald Allan (Red Deer, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for thermal processing and catalytic cracking of a biomass to effect distillate oil recovery can include, particle size reduction. slurrying the biomass with a carrier fluid to create a reaction mixture, slurrying a catalyst with a carrier fluid to create a catalyst slurry, heating the reaction mixture and/or the catal...