US Patent Issued to PAUL WURTH on March 24 for "Method of operating an electric arc furnace and steel mill" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,182, issued on March 24, was assigned to PAUL WURTH S.A. (Luxembourg).

"Method of operating an electric arc furnace and steel mill" was invented by Jan Krull (Varazze, Italy) and Katia Papalia (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure discloses a method of operating an electric arc furnace, the method comprising capturing, from at least one facility of a steel mill, a heated metallurgical gas comprising water and carbon monoxide; conducting, by a reactor supply line, said metallurgical gas to a reactor; transforming, by a treatment of said metallurgical gas within said reactor, the carbon monoxide and water into hy...