Starting a smelting process

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PATENT NO 9458518
APP PUB NO 20140318319A1
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14363262

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A method of starting a molten-bath based melting process includes establishing a sufficiently large and stable “hot zone” for ignition of oxygen and coal in a main chamber of a smelting vessel by independent means, i.e. independently of and before supplying cold oxygen and coal into the main chamber.

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TATA STEEL LIMITEDJAMSHEDPUR JHARKHAND 831 001

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dry, Rodney James City Beach, AU 49 397
Meijer, Hendrikus Koenraad Albertus Uitgeest, NL 12 15
Pilote, Jacques Doubleview, AU 17 27

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