CM-PATRA / record

Direct smelting process

Filed / published / granted
2011-09-15 / 2015-01-22 / 2020-11-25
Offices
US, EP, BR, PL, AU
Applicants
Dry Rodney James (AU, individual); Pilote Jacques (AU, individual); Tata Steel (IN, industry)
Minerals
General metallurgy (mineral unspecified)
Stages
Pyrometallurgy / smelting
CPC
C22B5/10
Abstract (first 170 chars)
A molten bath-based direct smelting process includes controlling the process conditions in a direct smelting vessel so that molten slag in a molten bath of metal and slag

Why it is labelled this way

Decided by cpc-rules: Metallurgy classes (C22B) without a named mineral.

Source: Google Patents Public Data (BigQuery), CC BY 4.0.