ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,359, issued on April 21, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Combustor and gas turbine" was invented by Shintaro Ito (Tokyo) and Soichiro Kato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor includes: a plurality of burners supplied with ammonia and a second fuel; and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: supplying the second fuel to at least a first burner among the plurality of burners in a first load range including zero load; and, in a second load range where an equivalent ratio of the first burner reaches a predetermined first value, increasing a flow rate of ammonia and decreasing a flow rate of the second f...