US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on Jan. 27 for "Steelmaking line and method of producing reduced iron" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,770, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Steelmaking line and method of producing reduced iron" was invented by Koichi Takahashi (Tokyo), Sumito Ozawa (Tokyo), Yuki Kawashiri (Tokyo), Yuya Morita (Tokyo), Taihei Nouchi (Tokyo) and Michitaka Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a steelmaking line contributing to the realization of a method that achieves energy saving and CO2 emission reduction when producing reduced iron from iron oxide. The steelmaking line comprises: a blast furnace configured to reduce iron oxide; a reducing furnace configured to reduce iron oxide; a methane synthesizer co...