ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,914, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).
"System and method for combusting high-moisture fuel to generate steam" was invented by Mark Daniel D'Agostini (Allentown, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for combusting a high-moisture fuel to generate steam in which the high-moisture solid fuel is first dried by contacting with an oxygen-depleted gas stream while being heated by indirect heat exchange with a recirculating thermal fluid. The dried fuel is then combusted with a combustion air stream to produce a combustion products stream whose heat first is used to generate steam,...