US Patent Issued to Europeenne De Biomasse on Jan. 20 for "Method for producing combustible pellets by improved steam cracking using heterogeneous biomass" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,002, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Europeenne De Biomasse (Paris).

"Method for producing combustible pellets by improved steam cracking using heterogeneous biomass" was invented by Adriana Quintero-Marquez (Le Vesinet, France), Jean-Luc Despres (Verzenay, France) and Frederic Martel (Riems, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The production of steam-cracked biomass in the form of black pellets in the field of solid biofuels. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to the production of black pellets from a heterogeneous biomass. The aim of the present disclosure is to produce black pellets having good mechanical stren...