US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Oct. 7 for "Powder supply hopper pressurizing apparatus, gasifier unit, integrated gasification combined cycle and control method of powder supply hopper pressurizing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,923, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Powder supply hopper pressurizing apparatus, gasifier unit, integrated gasification combined cycle and control method of powder supply hopper pressurizing apparatus" was invented by Yuichiro Urakata (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Kasai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koji Nishimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder supply hopper pressurizing apparatus including a first buffer tank in which pressurizing gas to be supplied to a powder supply hopper is accumulated at a predetermined pressure, a second buffer tank, a lower part pressure adjustment nitro...