US Patent Issued to IHI on Feb. 17 for "Gas turbine combustor having a first combustion zone receiving multiple fuels and a second combustion zone receiving a fuel not containing nitrogen atoms" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,394, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gas turbine combustor having a first combustion zone receiving multiple fuels and a second combustion zone receiving a fuel not containing nitrogen atoms" was invented by Shintaro Ito (Tokyo) and Masahiro Uchida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustion system includes: a combustor including a first combustion region and a second combustion region continuous with the first combustion region on a downstream side thereof; a first burner including an injection portion of ammonia as first fuel, the injection portion facing the first combustion region, and a first inject...