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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2012
Lance Awender Baird, Prospect Heights, IL (US);
Barry Freel, Greely, CA;
Doug Clarke, Ottowa, CA;
Gregory Joseph Morin, Chicago, IL (US);
Lance Awender Baird, Prospect Heights, IL (US);
Barry Freel, Greely, CA;
Doug Clarke, Ottowa, CA;
Gregory Joseph Morin, Chicago, IL (US);
Ensyn Renewables, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for thermally converting or pyrolyzing biomass are provided. In one embodiment, a method of thermally converting biomass includes introducing the biomass to a reactor feed chamber. The method provides for flowing a low oxygen gas into the reactor feed chamber to purge the reactor feed chamber and biomass of oxygen. The method also includes delivering the purged biomass to a thermal conversion reactor and thermally converting the biomass in the thermal conversion reactor.