ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,761, issued on April 21, was assigned to TORRGREEN TECHNOLOGY B.V. (Amsterdam).
"Torrefaction reactor and process" was invented by Yash Joshi (Mumbai, India) and Easwaran Krishnamurthy (Tamil Nadu, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a configuration comprising of more than one torrefaction batch reactors. A torrefaction batch reactor of the configuration comprises of a closed housing (2) having a gas inlet (4), a gas outlet (5) and a gas permeable biomass holding structure (6) positioned within the housing (2) defining a biomass holding space (7). The gas inlet (4) and the gas outlet (5) of the torrefac...