MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517076720 A) filed by Lummus Technology Llc, Houston, on Aug. 12, for 'hybrid furnace with fuel and/or electricity.'
Inventor(s) include Zhao, Baozhong; Yin, Aijing; Kamphuis, Marijn; Carrillo, Alejandro; and Razuk, Marcio.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An apparatus for heating petroleum, petrochemical, chemical process fluids, and boiler feed water or steam generation with a combination, or individual operation, of electrical elements and fired burners. The apparatus includes a radiant heating section and a flue gas stack for exhausting a combustion gas to the atmosphere. The radiant section includes one or more process coils, one or more fuel-fired burners for combusting a fuel and producing the combustion gas, where the one or more fuel-fired burners are arranged to provide radiant energy to a first area of the one or more process coils, and one or more electrical heating elements arranged to provide radiant energy to a second area of the one or more process coils. The one or more electrical heating elements are configured to provide 5% or more of a combined maximum energy output of the fuel-fired burners and the electrical heating elements."
The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 20, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/016557.
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