MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517056345 A) filed by Air Products And Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, U.S.A., on June 11, for 'apparatus and process for calcining feed material.'

Inventor(s) include Mocsari, Jeffrey Carl; and Makwana, Anandkumar.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A process for calcining a feed material can include passing a solid particulate material through a burner or adjacent a burner for being pass through a flame formed by the burner to facilitate calcination of the material. The material can be emitted from the flame of the burner within a calciner for passing through a body of the calciner to an outlet for further calcination of the material so the material has a pre-selected residence time as it is passed through the flame and calciner to an outlet. The residence time can be 20 seconds to 30 seconds, 1-3 minutes, less than 5 minutes in some embodiments. Some embodiments can facilitate calcination of a CaCO3 material so the calcined solid material output from a calciner is comprised of Ca(OH)2 (e.g. is mostly Ca(OH)2, is over 90 weight percent Ca(OH)2, etc.)."

The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 11, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/083292.

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