Patents by Inventor Matt Shattuck

Matt Shattuck 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).

  • Anaerobic reactor and corresponding method for digesting organic material
    Patent number: 7824906
    Abstract: The present invention is an anaerobic reactor and preferably a vertically oriented plug flow anaerobic reactor for producing methane from various organic materials. The organic materials preferably have a high organic content. The reactor includes cutting members for cutting bridged or agglomerated material within the reactor. The present invention also includes a process for producing methane from an organic feed stock by continuously charging an organic material into the top portion of a vertically oriented vessel and rotating one or more cutting members at a sufficiently slow rate so that the cutting members cut through bridged or agglomerated material but do not substantially mix contents within the reactor, anaerobically digesting the organic material under mesophilic or thermophilic conditions to produce methane while allowing the organic material to propagate downward through the vessel in a plug flow-like manner and collecting methane gas produced from the anaerobic digestion of the organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: ARCADIS U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Murphy, Jon Forbort, Evan Nyer, Matt Shattuck, Wes May
  • ANAEROBIC REACTOR AND CORRESPONDING METHOD FOR DIGESTING ORGANIC MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20090023193
    Abstract: The present invention is an anaerobic reactor and preferably a vertically oriented plug flow anaerobic reactor for producing methane from various organic materials. The organic materials preferably have a high organic content. The reactor includes cutting members for cutting bridged or agglomerated material within the reactor. The present invention also includes a process for producing methane from an organic feed stock by continuously charging an organic material into the top portion of a vertically oriented vessel and rotating one or more cutting members at a sufficiently slow rate so that the cutting members cut through bridged or agglomerated material but do not substantially mix contents within the reactor, anaerobically digesting the organic material under mesophilic or thermophilic conditions to produce methane while allowing the organic material to propagate downward through the vessel in a plug flow-like manner and collecting methane gas produced from the anaerobic digestion of the organic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Scott Murphy, Jon Forbort, Evan Nyer, Matt Shattuck, Wes May