ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,637, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (Xi'an, China).
"Biochar-anaerobic membrane biological treatment system and process" was invented by Rong Chen (Xi'an, China), Zhen Lei (Xi'an, China), Jiale Zheng (Xi'an, China) and Hong Luo (Xi'an, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a biochar-anaerobic membrane biological treatment system and process. The system mainly includes a reaction tank, a membrane module, a macroporous gas distribution device, low-temperature pyrolysis biochar. The application of the process to sewage treatment shows that: under the conditions that the hydr...