US Patent Issued to GAS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE on June 24 for "Oxy-PFBC temperature management through staged gas injection and gas velocity management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,991, issued on June 24, was assigned to GAS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Oxy-PFBC temperature management through staged gas injection and gas velocity management" was invented by William W. Follett IV (Calabasas, Calif.) and Douglas M. Heim (Woodland Hillis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressurized fluidized bed combustor (PFBC) and method of operation. A heated diluent is used alone or in combination with adjustments to a combustor gas velocity, to manage the bed temperature and keep it within allowable ranges. The diluent can be taken from the combustor flue gas, and recycled and reheated through the fluidi...