US Patent Issued to Air Products and Chemicals on May 20 for "Methods for preheating metal-containing pellets" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,926, issued on May 20, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Methods for preheating metal-containing pellets" was invented by Gregory J. Buragino (Macungie, Pa.), Anup Vasant Sane (Allentown, Pa.), Shailesh Pradeep Gangoli (Allentown, Pa.), Xiaoyi He (Orefield, Pa.) and Larry Saul Zelson (Macungie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preheating metal pellets before charging into a melting furnace, wherein the pellets are transported by a conveyor belt to a chute and discharged from the chute into the melting furnace, the method including heating the pellets by direct flame impingement from two...