# Air Products and Chemicals — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Air Products and Chemicals has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [Making Iron More Efficiently and Generating Power with Oxygen](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8133298/blast-furnace-iron-production-with-integrated-power-generation) — granted 2012
  This patent describes an integrated system that uses extra oxygen in a blast furnace to make iron more efficiently, while also capturing the furnace's waste gases to generate electricity and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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