US Patent Issued to Air Products and Chemicals on Dec. 30 for "Apparatus and process for starting up and shutting down a feed of fuel for a turbine apparatus" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,031, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Apparatus and process for starting up and shutting down a feed of fuel for a turbine apparatus" was invented by Bryan Michael Krause (Allentown, Pa.), Louis J. Katogir (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and Ghassan Altimany (North Wales, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can be arranged and configured so that after a gas turbine is shut down due to a detected condition, a higher autoignition temperature fuel can be utilized to purge a fuel delivery system and facilitate a quicker restart of the turbine. Embodiments can utilize conduits, valves, ...