MUMBAI, India, Aug. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617081711 A) filed by Nippon Steel Corporation on July 02, 2026, for Method For Blowing Reducing Gas Into Blast Furnace, And Blast Furnace.

Inventors include Sunahara, Kohei; Kumaoka, Hisashi; Kamijo, Chikashi; Matsukura, Yoshinori Application Number; and Yokoyama, Hirokazu.

The application for the patent was published on August 28, 2026, under issue no. 35/2026.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for increasing the possibility that a reducing gas can be stably blown into a blast furnace via a reducing-gas-blowing lance even when the furnace state of the blast furnace becomes unstable and molten slag or the like flows back into a hot-air tuyere. A m...