Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for Method And System For Producing Reduced Iron

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617086634 A) filed by Nippon Steel Corporation on July 15, 2026, for Method And System For Producing Reduced Iron.

Inventors include Tani, Yoshiki; Tomita, Katsuyuki; and Mizutani, Moritoshi.

The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.

Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for producing carbon-containing reduced iron in a direct reduction process, by cooling iron metal resulting from a reduction step while increasing the carbon concentration of the iron metal. This method for producing carbon-containing reduced iron includes a reduction step in which a reducing gas is brought into contact with a raw ...