US Patent Issued to GREENIRON H2 on April 7 for "Method and device for producing direct reduced metal" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,521, issued on April 7, was assigned to GREENIRON H2 AB (Stockholm).

"Method and device for producing direct reduced metal" was invented by Hans E.H. Murray (Djursholm, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for producing direct reduced metal material, comprising the steps: a) charging metal material (142) to be reduced into a furnace space (120); b) providing heat and a reducing gas into the furnace space (120), so that heated reducing gas heats the charged metal material (142) to a temperature high enough so that metal oxides present in the charged metal material (142) are reduced, in turn causing water vapour to be formed; a...