MUMBAI, India, Sept. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202044029637 A) filed by Air Products And Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, U.S.A., on July 13, 2020, for 'tuyere for a basic oxygen furnace.'

Inventor(s) include Anandkumar Makwana; Anup Vasant Sane; Michael David Buzinski; and Gregory J. Buragino.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 5, under issue no. 36/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A tuyere comprising an inner tube including a lower section having a first diameter, an upper section having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter, and a converging transition section having a converging angle T from 15 to 35 connecting the lower section to the upper section, the inner tube terminating in an inner nozzle at a downstream end of the upper section; and an outer tube surrounding the inner tube so as to create an annulus there between, the outer tube including a lower section having a third diameter larger than the first diameter, an upper section having a fourth diameter smaller than the third diameter but larger than the second diameter, and a converging transition section having connecting the lower section to the upper section, the outer tube terminating in an outer nozzle at a downstream end of the upper section."

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