US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude on Aug. 11 for "Method and apparatus for regulating a flame length in a partial oxidation reactor" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,258, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for regulating a flame length in a partial oxidation reactor" was invented by Matthias Mueller-Hagedorn (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Bernard Labegorre (Paris), Arthur Degeneve (Les Loges-en-Josas, France), Paul Jourdaine (Paris) and Jean Caudal (Versailles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (having at least one burner having a plurality of co-axial channels and a control system for regulating a length of a flame for partial oxidation of hydrocarbon feed in a ...