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US 11,685,893 B2Granted
System and method for biomass growth and processing
AssigneeBrisa International, LLC
InventorsKevin C. Harmon, Shannon M. Johnson, Eugene T. Holmes
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Abstract
A system comprising a collocated thermal plant, water source, CO2 source and biomass growth module is disclosed. A method of improving the environment by utilizing the system is disclosed.
Claims31
A method of using and reclaiming heat and/or cooling from a thermal plant module, the thermal plant module either a) being:
- a fossil fuel-fired plant, a nuclear plant, a solar thermal plant, a steel plant, a cement plant, a paper mill, a textile mill, a metal manufacturing plant, an incinerator, and/or a rotary kiln incinerator, and/or b) comprising:
- a cellulosic ethanol/isobutanol/butanol module, a hydrothermal processing module, a gasification module, a waste-to-energy module, a plasma gasification unit, and/or a desorber/condenser module, the method comprising:
- generating heat and/or cooling at the thermal plant module;
- transmitting the heat and/or the cooling to a biomass growth module (BGM);
- and
- using all or a portion of the heat and/or cooling in the thermal plant module and/or in the BGM,
- wherein the BGM does not include, nor is operatively connected to, an anaerobic bioreactor.
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A method of using and reclaiming heat and/or cooling from a thermal plant module, the method comprising:
- generating heat and/or cooling at the thermal plant module;
- transmitting heat and/or cooling to a biomass growth module (BGM);
- and
- using all or a portion of the heat and/or cooling in the thermal plant module and/or in the BGM,
- wherein heat and/or cooling is further provided to and/or reclaimed from:
- a. a refinery module;
- b. a BPP module;
- c. an air conditioning/heating module;
- d. a recycling module;
- e. a BBPP module;
- f. a products storage module;
- g. a desalination module;
- h. a waste to energy module;
- i. a biogas storage module;
- j. a heat/cooling storage module;
- k. a heat/cooling recovery module;
- l. heating/cooling external to or apart from the method;
- m. heating/cooling for discharge;
- n. biomass products;
- o. a gasification module;
- p. processing of biofuel;
- and/or
- q. systems optionally comprised by the thermal plant module selected from:
- i. a pyrolysis processes module;
- ii. a hydrothermal processing module;
- iii. a cellulosic ethanol/butanol/isobutanol module;
- and/or
- a desorber/condenser module,
- wherein any two or more of components a.-q. are collocated and wherein outputs of heat and/or cooling from any one of components a.-q. share heating and/or cooling transmission modules and/or technologies, and/or heat and/or cooling storage module(s) and/or unit(s).
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A method of using and reclaiming heat and/or cooling from a thermal plant module, the method comprising:
- generating cooling at the thermal plant module by cogenerating cooling using heat from the thermal plant module;
- transmitting the cogenerated cooling to a biomass growth module (BGM);
- and using all or a portion of the cogenerated cooling in the BGM.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.