US Patent Issued to POLITECNICO DI MILANO, I.T.T. on June 3 for "Furnaces and processes for synthesis gas production" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,577, issued on June 3, was assigned to POLITECNICO DI MILANO (Milan) and I.T.T. S.p.A. (Milan).

"Furnaces and processes for synthesis gas production" was invented by Flavio Manenti (Milan) and Giulia Piccioni (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furnace for gas fields, refineries reforming, petrochemical plants, or hydrogen generation by gasification may include: a radiant zone; a convective zone; and a first and second series of pipes through which at least two segregated process gas flows respectively pass. A first process gas flow may enter the furnace through the convective zone and, flowing through the first series of pipes, m...