US Patent Issued to Messer Industries USA on April 21 for "Process and burner apparatus for acid regeneration" (Illinois, New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,352, issued on April 21, was assigned to Messer Industries USA Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Process and burner apparatus for acid regeneration" was invented by Andrew Richardson (Clinton, N.J.), Blake Stapper (Austin, Texas) and Guisu Liu (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A burner, process and furnace are provided for regenerating a spent acid stream or other sulfur-containing stream by decomposing the spent sulfuric acid stream and/or other sulfur-containing stream to recover sulfur dioxide from the stream. The burner includes a burner body, and at least one spent acid feed passage positioned at least partially within t...