US Patent Issued to Messer Industries USA on April 14 for "Process and apparatus for oxygen injection in a sulfur furnace" (Illinois, New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,627, issued on April 14, was assigned to Messer Industries USA Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Process and apparatus for oxygen injection in a sulfur furnace" was invented by Andrew Richardson (Clinton, N.J.), Guisu Liu (Naperville, Ill.) and Blake Stapper (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for oxidizing a sulfur stream includes supplying at least one sulfur stream into a furnace; supplying oxygen-enriched combustion air into the furnace; separately supplying pure oxygen into the furnace; and at least partially oxidizing the at least one sulfur stream in the furnace. A related apparatus is also provided and includes a...