US Patent Issued to Air Products and Chemicals on March 3 for "Burner, system, and method for hydrogen-enhanced pulverized coal ignition" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,990, issued on March 3, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Burner, system, and method for hydrogen-enhanced pulverized coal ignition" was invented by Mark Daniel D'Agostini (Allentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A burner including a first pulverized coal entrained fluid flow conduit; an inner hydrogen conduit; and a hydrogen oxidant conduit positioned between the first pulverized coal entrained fluid flow conduit and the inner hydrogen conduit; an outlet of the inner hydrogen conduit positioned a first distance from an outlet of the hydrogen oxidant conduit such that hydrogen output from the ou...