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 obt...