MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517038169 A) filed by The University Of Birmingham, Edgbaston, U.K., on April 21, for 'improved metal production.'
Inventor(s) include Ding, Yulong; and Kildahl, Harriet.
The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system (100) for metal production, the system comprising: a reducing furnace (110) configured to receive metal ore (101) and process gas (102) and to output hot metal (115) and reducing furnace top gas (111); and a first thermochemical reactor (130) configured to, in a first mode, receive at least a portion (163) of the reducing furnace top gas (111), and to produce carbon monoxide from carbon dioxide in the portion (163) of the blast reducing furnace top gas (111) by oxidation of a thermochemical compound and to return at least a portion of the produced carbon monoxide (151) to the reducing furnace (110)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Sept. 20, 2023, under International application No.PCT/GB2023/052427.
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