ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,940, issued on June 17, was assigned to Casale SA (Lugano, Switzerland).
"Reactor and process for partial oxidation" was invented by Luca Zanichelli (Milan) and Giacomo Colmegna (Massagno, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of partial oxidation is performed in a reactor which includes a reaction chamber and a burner assembly, wherein: the burner assembly has a single oxidant nozzle located within an fuel channel, said oxidant nozzle comprises a nozzle pipe and a nozzle outlet, the nozzle pipe and the fuel channel are arranged to produce a diffusion flame, the nozzle outlet has a shape with two or more elongate lobes...