MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202431016296 A) filed by Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on March 7, 2024, for 'method to reduce size of low carbon ferro chrome alloy lumps.'

Inventor(s) include Prabhash Gokarn; Anup Kumar; Kamalesh Prasad Maurya; Vijay Kumar Tiwary; Hari Om Bairwa; and Siddhartha Guha.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to a method to reduce size of Low Carbon Ferro Chrome Alloy lumps. The method includes placing the Low Carbon Ferro Chrome Alloy lumps in a container followed by pouring a first coolant into the container to cool the alloy to a first predefined temperature. Further, the method includes subjecting the Low Carbon Ferro Chrome Alloy to a first stage of cooling in the first coolant for a first period followed by crushing the cooled alloy in a series of crushers to reduce the size of the Low Carbon Ferro Chrome Alloys lumps; followed by subjecting the crushed lumps of Low Carbon Ferro Chrome Alloy to a second stage of cooling in a second coolant for a second period and pulverizing the cooled alloy in a pulverizer to reduce the size."

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