US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on June 3 for "Blast furnace fault determination apparatus, method for determining fault in blast furnace, and method for operating blast furnace" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,590, issued on June 3, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Blast furnace fault determination apparatus, method for determining fault in blast furnace, and method for operating blast furnace" was invented by Hiroyuki Shimamoto (Tokyo), Tomohiko Ito (Tokyo), Tatsuya Yamaguchi (Tokyo) and Nozomu Nishimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blast furnace fault determination apparatus includes a processor configured to: calculate a fault index indicative of a degree of fault in a blast furnace; calculate a ventilation index of the blast furnace; and determine a fault condition in the blast furnace using the fault index and the v...