MUMBAI, India, July 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517064914 A) filed by Technological Resources Pty. Limited, Melbourne, Australia, on July 8, for 'biomass direct reduced iron.'
Inventor(s) include Dodds, Christopher; Batchelor, Andrew Rhodes; Kingman, Samuel; Rodriguez, Jose; and Farr, Iain William.
The application for the patent was published on July 25, under issue no. 30/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method and an apparatus for producing direct reduced iron (DRI), typically continuously, from iron ore using biomass as a main source of reductant in a hearth furnace having a preheat zone, a reduction zone, and a transition zone between the preheat and the reduction zones, with the transition zone being configured for compacting iron ore/biomass material carried on the conveyor as it moves through the transition zone from the preheat zone to the reduction zone so that it presents a more compacted bed of material which is better suited to processing with microwave energy in the reduction zone."
The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 21, 2023, under International application No.PCT/AU2023/051350.
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