ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,617, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TATA STEEL NEDERLAND TECHNOLOGY B.V. (Velsen-Noord, Netherlands).
"Device and method for continuous desulphurisation of liquid hot metal" was invented by Ali Emami (Haarlem, Netherlands), Frank Nicolaas Hermanus Schrama (Leiden, Netherlands) and Johan Willem Koenraad Van Boggelen (Alkmaar, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method for continuous desulphurisation of liquid iron provided by a blast furnace process or a direct reduction process. The device including a desulphurisation reactor or a plurality of consecutive desulphurisation reactors. The desulphurisation reactor...