Patents by Inventor Dianbing Huang

Dianbing Huang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for monitoring the wear of a refractory lining of a blast furnace
    Publication number: 20220120499
    Abstract: A method for monitoring the wear of a refractory lining of a blast furnace using modelling of a part of the blast furnace and thermal field calculation. Computer program allowing to perform such a method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Michel PICARD, Sami-Alex ZAIMI, Dianbing HUANG, Mouna ABBANA BENNANI
  • Reduction of iron ore in ore/coal mixtures
    Patent number: 6592648
    Abstract: A process of reduction of iron ore and/or waste oxides in the form of agglomerate containing carbonaceous reductant on the hearth of a furnace includes providing a bed of agglomerates on the hearth of a furnace, the bed having a height of at least about 40 mm and having at least four layers of agglomerates. The carbonaceous reductant contains sufficient volatile matter, the volatile matter having a weight of at least about 10% of the weight of the reductant. The bed of agglomerates is heated with a radiant heat source having a temperature of at least about 1450° C. to cause the top of the bed to reach a temperature in the range of 1350° C. to 1530° C. to 1500° C. to reduce iron oxides in the iron ore and/or waste oxides to metallic iron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: McMaster University
    Inventors: Wei-kao Lu, Dianbing Huang
  • Reduction of iron ore in ore/coal mixtures
    Publication number: 20020029660
    Abstract: A process of reduction of iron ore and/or waste oxides in the form of agglomerate containing carbonaceous reductant on the hearth of a furnace includes providing a bed of agglomerates on the hearth of a furnace, the bed having a height of at least about 40 mm and having at least four layers of agglomerates. The carbonaceous reductant contains sufficient volatile matter, the volatile matter having a weight of at least about 10% of the weight of the reductant. The bed of agglomerates is heated with a radiant heat source having a temperature of at least about 1450° C. to cause the top of the bed to reach a temperature in the range of 1530° C. to 1500° C. to reduce iron oxides in the iron ore and/or waste oxides to metallic iron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Inventors: Wei-Kao Lu, Dianbing Huang
  • Paired straight hearth (PSH) furnaces for metal oxide reduction
    Patent number: 6257879
    Abstract: Equipment for the reduction of metal oxides with carbonaceous reductants includes a pair of straight moving hearth furnaces each having a charging end and a discharging end. Each furnace has a train of detachable hearth sections to enable each hearth section to be removed at the discharging end of one furnace and attached at the charging end of the other furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Inventors: Wei-Kao Lu, Dianbing Huang