MUMBAI, India, Aug. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202638057616 A) filed by Paul Wurth S. A. on May 06, 2026, for Iron Ore Reducing And Melting Apparatus And Method.
Inventors include Kinzel, Klaus Peter; Didelon, Fernand; Baniasadi, Mehdi; Delikonstantis, Evangelos; and Ji, Jihong.
The application for the patent was published on August 07, 2026, under issue no. 32/2026.
Abstract: An iron ore reducing and melting apparatus comprising: - a furnace comprising from bottom to top: a hearth, a tuyere level, a shaft level and a top level, said blast furnace comprising at least one first gas injector on the tuyere level - at least one first reducing gas generator connected to the at least one first gas injector, wherein the apparatus is adapted to provide reducing gas comprising 30-100 % (vol/vol) hydrogen on the tuyere level and to operate at a coke rate of below 200 kg/t hot metal.
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