Continuous scrap preheating
CA 2104337 C · Owner: Vallomy, John Alexander · Inventors: Vallomy, John Alexander
Overview
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A method and apparatus for reducing the production or emission of noxious gases while continuously preheating a mixture of iron-bearing scrap charge materials for an electric steelmaking furnace operation with off-gas from the furnace, including provision for controlled combustion within the preheating chamber. Removed gases are then treated by thermal incineration of combustible residual matter before release into the atmosphere to ensure that no noxious gases are emitted.
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- Filed August 18, 1993 and granted May 5, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 18, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 18, 2015.
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