US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Power Americas on June 3 for "Hydrogen and oxygen supplemental firing for combined-cycle facility" (Florida, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,276, issued on June 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Power Americas Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Hydrogen and oxygen supplemental firing for combined-cycle facility" was invented by Craig Satoshi Brooker (Winter Springs, Fla.), Song Wu (Livingston, N.J.) and Michael McManus (Palm Coast, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined-cycle power plant comprises a gas turbine engine for generating exhaust gas, an electric generator driven by the gas turbine engine, a steam generator receiving the exhaust gas to heat water and generate steam, and a duct burner system configured to heat exhaust gas in the steam generator before generating the st...