US Patent Issued to ANDRITZ on Aug. 5 for "Method and an arrangement for measuring mass changes of heat exchangers of a steam boiler" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,104, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ANDRITZ OY (Helsinki).

"Method and an arrangement for measuring mass changes of heat exchangers of a steam boiler" was invented by Ilkka Pollanen (Valkeala, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring mass changes of a heat exchanger bank (1, 2, 3) or the heat exchangers thereof of a steam boiler, which heat exchanger (4) is supported by hanger rods (7) to support beams (5,8) above the steam boiler, wherein at least one hanger rod (7) of at least one heat exchanger (4) is connected a lower measuring element (9) and an upper measuring element (10), and the changes of the measurin...