Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Process And System For Continuous Pre-Reduction Of A Solid Granular Material' Filed by Tecnored Desenvolvimento Tecnologico S. A.

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517084499 A) filed by Tecnored Desenvolvimento Tecnologico S. A., Pindamonhangaba, Brazil, on Sept. 5, for 'process and system for continuous pre-reduction of a solid granular material.'

Inventor(s) include Potter, Stephen Michael; De Oliveira, Ronald, Lopes; Goncalves, Guilherme Francisco; Agra, Anderson, Azevedo; and Goncalves, Manoel Vtor, Borel.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to solid agglomerates for use in siderurgical reduction furnaces. In this context, the present invention provides a process for continuous pre-reduction of a solid granular material (10), comprising the steps of: (i) continuously feeding a solid granular material (10) into a reactor (20); and (ii) pre-reducing the solid granular material (10) by means of injecting pre-reduction gas (30) into the reactor (20) as the solid granular material (10) goes through the reactor (20), wherein the pre-reduction gas (30) comes from a siderurgical self-reduction furnace (40). The present invention further provides a system associated with the method described above."

The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 22, 2023, under International application No.PCT/BR2023/050496.

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