US Patent Issued to T.EN Process Technology on June 16 for "System and process for oxy-fuel calcination of lime-bearing sludge" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,060, issued on June 16, was assigned to T.EN Process Technology Inc. (Houston).

"System and process for oxy-fuel calcination of lime-bearing sludge" was invented by Eric Eccleston (Claremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally provides a modification of a calcination process of lime bearing sludge in such a way that the flue gas generated by the calcination process contains primarily carbon dioxide and water vapor along with only minor amounts of other gaseous species. Such a flue gas can be treated by standard industrial gas scrubbing and purification processes to remove residual particulate solids, to co...