US Patent Issued to Air Products and Chemicals on Sept. 15 for "Method and system for heat recovery in an oxy-fuel fired glass furnace" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,341, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Method and system for heat recovery in an oxy-fuel fired glass furnace" was invented by Mark Daniel D'Agostini (Allentown, Pa.), Kevin Michael Duffy (Alburtis, Pa.), Michael J. Gallagher (Coopersburg, Pa.) and Ashwin Vinod (Macungie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and systems for glass making can utilize heat recovery to improve operational efficiency and flexibility of operation to provide improved yield, higher quality, or more consistent quality glass, and/or other efficiencies. Some embodiments can utilize adjustments in bur...