MUMBAI, India, June 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617032371 A) filed by Paul Wurth S. A. on March 17, 2026, for Method For Producing Steel In A Smelting Furnace To Basic Oxygen Furnace Installation.
Inventors include Didelon, Fernand; and Jipnang Njamen, Elena.
The application for the patent was published on June 19, 2026, under issue no. 25/2026.
Abstract: A method for producing steel in smelting furnace (SF) basic oxygen furnace (BOF) installation, for increasing the scrap ratio in the BOF, comprising: (a) transferring hot metal of a SF to a hot metal (HM) ladle; (b) providing heating means to the HM ladle to obtain a HM ladle furnace and pre-heating the content of said HM ladle furnace to obtain a processed hot metal; (c) optionally removing sulfur from the processed HM; (d) transferring the processed HM to the BOF charged with a BOF charge of scrap to produce steel; wherein the temperature of the processed HM before the BOF is from 1370 °C to 1700 °C; wherein a ladle charge of scrap is optionally added in the HM ladle prior to and/or during steps (a) and/or (b) and/or prior (c); wherein in the scrap ratio, the scrap represent the sum of all charges of scrap.
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