MUMBAI, India, Oct. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517093547 A) filed by Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie - S. R. L., Florence, Italy, on Sept. 29, for 'an expander for oxy-fuel combustion cycles and the like.'

Inventor(s) include Bucciarelli, Frederico; Giusti, Enrico; Mariotti, Massimiliano; Checcacci, Damaso; Cosi, Lorenzo; Gaudiuso, Giancarlo; and Succi, Lorenzo.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 31, under issue no. 44/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The supercritical expander comprises an outer casing and a rotor housed in the outer casing for rotation around a rotation axis. At least one combustor is housed in the casing or associated to the casing. The outer casing comprises a high-pressure casing and a low-pressure exhaust casing coupled to one another with a flange connection along a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis. The low-pressure exhaust casing comprises a discharge plenum, adapted to collect combustion gas expanded through a gas expansion flow path; the low-pressure exhaust casing comprising at least one exhaust aperture."

The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 26, 2024, under International application No.PCT/EP2024/025131.

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