Patents by Inventor Jacob Hendrik Arnold KIEL

Jacob Hendrik Arnold KIEL has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE TORREFACTION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20130075244
    Abstract: A method for torrefaction of biomass using a torrefaction reactor vessel having stacked trays including: feeding the biomass to an upper inlet of the vessel; cascading the biomass down through the trays by passing the biomass through an opening in each of the trays to deposit the biomass on a lower tray; heating the biomass material with an oxygen deprived gas; extracting moisture from below each of the upper trays; as the biomass undergoes torrefaction in the lower trays retaining the gas with the biomass until the biomass falls from the stacked trays to a pile of biomass in the reactor vessel; exhausting gases containing organic compounds through a gas outlet at an elevation between the stacked trays and the pile of biomass, and discharging torrefied biomass from the torrefaction reactor vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicants: STICHTING ENERGIEONDERZOEK CENTRUM NEDERLAND, ANDRITZ INC.
    Inventors: Andrew EYER, Bertil STROMBERG, Brian F. GREENWOOD, Jacob Hendrik Arnold KIEL, Robin Willem Rudolf ZWART, Ferdinand VERHOEFF, Michael SESTRICH, Nachiketa NANDY, Robert DIAZ, Jay MIELE