MUMBAI, India, Feb. 21 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517001721 A) filed by Paul Wurth S. A., Luxembourg, on Jan. 8, for 'method for operating a smelting furnace installation.'

Inventor(s) include Kinzel, Klaus Peter; Didelon, Fernand; Baniasadi, Mehdi; Delikonstantis, Evangelos; and Ji, Jihong.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 21, under issue no. 08/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method for operating a smelting furnace installation, in particular a blast furnace installation, the method comprising - feeding coke, iron oxide containing material and if required fluxing agents to the top of the smelting furnace, - injecting a first r...