ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,856, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Cracking and separation of ammonia fuel" was invented by Peter Cocks (South Glastonbury, Conn.) and Lance Smith (West Hartford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a cracking device that is configured to decompose an ammonia flow into a flow that contains more hydrogen (H2) than ammonia (NH3), a first separation device that separates hydrogen downstream of the cracking device, wherein residual ammonia and nitrogen are exhausted as a residual flow. The separated flow contains more hydrogen than ammonia, and nitrogen is exhausted sepa...