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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Huibert W den Hartog, Noordwijkerhout, NL;
Assignee:
Hoogovens Staal B.V., Ijmuiden, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
266 44 ; 266142 ; 266156 ; 266D / ;
Abstract
A plant for a smelting reduction process for pig iron production using coal and oxygen-containing gas is obtained by converting an existing blast furnace plant by replacing the blast furnace by apparatus including at least one metallurgical vessel for carrying out the smelting reduction process, while retaining at least partly at least one of the following components of the existing blast furnace plant: