US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi UBE Cement on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus for carbonizing biomass" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,642, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus for carbonizing biomass" was invented by Yuusuke Hiraiwa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Shigeya Hayashi (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Nobuyuki Ooi (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biomass carbonizing apparatus (100) includes a rotary kiln (2) as a carbonization furnace configured to carbonize biomass, a combustion furnace (41) configured to combust gas discharged from the carbonization furnace, a duct (42) connecting the carbonization furnace and the combustion furnace, and an oxygen-containing gas feed unit (45) configured to feed oxygen-con...