Patent 7396789 was granted and assigned to Saint-Gobain on July, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A gasifier internal refractory coating has at least one region of a sintered material containing at least 45% by weight of chromium oxide (Cr2O3) and at least 1% by weight of zirconium oxide, at least 20% by weight of the zirconium oxide (ZrO2) being stabilized in the cubic and/or quadratic form.