US Patent Issued to Praxair Technology on Oct. 21 for "Startup methods for oxidation reactor" (New York, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,288, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Praxair Technology Inc. (Danbury, Conn.).

"Startup methods for oxidation reactor" was invented by Bradley D. Damstedt (Williamsville, N.Y.), Lawrence E. Bool (East Aurora, N.Y.) and Michael F. Riley (Greenwood, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a reactor for partial oxidation of feedstock employing a hot oxygen stream that is generated by a suitable burner, the same burner that generates and provides the hot oxygen stream in full-scale partial oxidation operation can be employed in the starting-up of the partial oxidation reactor by suitable control of the characteristics of the feed to th...