US Patent Issued to Air Products and Chemicals on March 3 for "Apparatus and method to control supplying fuel to a gas turbine system" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,861, issued on March 3, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Apparatus and method to control supplying fuel to a gas turbine system" was invented by Bryan Michael Krause (Whitehall, Pa.), Louis J. Katogir (Cherry Hill, N.J.), Carl Alfred Dunn (Lenhartsville, Pa.), Zhong-Xiang Zhu (Macungie, Pa.) and Erdem Arslan (Macungie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method to control the supplying of fuel to a gas turbine system can be configured to help avoid a flame out condition in which combustion of fuel in the turbine ceases in operation when transitioning from one fuel to another ...