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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2023
L'air Liquide, Société Anonyme Pour I'etude ET I'exploitation Des Procédés Georges Claude, Paris, FR;
American Air Liquide, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Remi Tsiava, Saint Germain-les-Corbeil, FR;
Bhupesh Dhungel, Middletown, DE (US);
L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation, Des Procedes Georges Claude Paris, FR;
American Air Liquide, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for operating a furnace, the method including the steps of: combusting fuel with oxidant, thereby generating thermal energy and fumes, heating the furnace with a first part of the thermal energy generated in step a, evacuating the generated fumes from the furnace at a temperature of at least 900° C., the evacuated fumes containing a second part of the thermal energy generated in step a, and using the second part of the thermal energy generated in step a for heating the oxidant and as a heat source for cracking ammonia in a cracker into a mixture including hydrogen, nitrogen and un-cracked ammonia, at least part of the mixture produced in step d-ii being combusted as fuel in step a with at least part of the heated oxidant produced in step d-i.