MUMBAI, India, July 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517064914 A) filed by Technological Resources Pty. Limited, Melbourne, Australia, on July 8, for 'biomass direct reduced iron.'

Inventor(s) include Dodds, Christopher; Batchelor, Andrew Rhodes; Kingman, Samuel; Rodriguez, Jose; and Farr, Iain William.

The application for the patent was published on July 25, under issue no. 30/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method and an apparatus for producing direct reduced iron (DRI), typically continuously, from iron ore using biomass as a main source of reductant in a hearth furnace having a preheat zone, a reduction zone, and a transition zone between the preh...