ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,410, issued on July 1, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY (Memphis, Tenn.).
"System and methods for controlling operation of a recovery boiler to reduce fouling" was invented by Andrew Kevin Jones (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a computer-implemented method of reducing a rate of fouling in a recovery boiler system is provided. A computing device receives boiler operating information for a period of time. The boiler operating information includes boiler operating parameters and a rate of fouling for the period of time. The boiler operating parameters include one or more boiler input parameters. The...