US Patent Issued to CIX on Sept. 16 for "Carbon dioxide emission reduction system for electric arc furnaces utilizing algae for carbon dioxide absorbtion" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,055, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CIX INC. (Oriental, N.C.).

"Carbon dioxide emission reduction system for electric arc furnaces utilizing algae for carbon dioxide absorbtion" was invented by Mark Edward Trapp (Oriental, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slag foaming system for an electric arc furnace utilizing algae is described. The algae may be dried algae in particle form that is injected into the electric arc furnace through a solids injector and may be directed into the slag. Other slag foaming compositions may also be injected into a furnace as a function of furnace parameters to create slag foam while maintaining ...