Abstract:
A description is given of a process for producing agglomerates composed of finely particulate iron carriers and at least one binder as starting material for a metallurgical process. The agglomerates are, in at least one further agglomeration step, coated with a layer consisting of iron carriers and at least one binder and heated in such a way that only the binder in the region of the surface of the agglomerates is cured. In a process for producing liquid pig iron or liquid steel raw products from starting materials and if appropriate additives and agglomerates, the agglomerates are preheated in a reduction zone which has a preheating stage in such a way that the agglomerates cure fully in the preheating stage.
Abstract:
A process for producing particulate iron metal through the reducing fusion of a feed material mixture comprising an iron oxide-containing substance, e.g., iron ore, and a carbonaceous reducing agent, e.g., a carbon-containing material, in a moving-bed type heating/reducing oven, wherein especially the content of the sulfur which has come into the particulate iron metal from the carbon-containing material such as coal is minimized. Thus, high-quality particulate iron metal reduced in sulfur content is obtained. The amounts of CaO-, MgO-, and SiO2-containing substances contained in the feed material mixture are regulated so that the slug-forming ingredients have a basicity (CaO+MgO)/SiO2, as determined from the contents of CaO, MgO, and SiO2 in the feed material mixture, of 1.3 to 2.3 and further have an MgO content (MgO) of 5 to 13 wt.%.
Abstract:
A process for producing particulate iron metal through the reducing fusion of a feed material mixture comprising an iron oxide-containing substance, e.g., iron ore, and a carbonaceous reducing agent, e.g., a carbon-containing material, in a moving-bed type heating/reducing oven, wherein especially the content of the sulfur which has come into the particulate iron metal from the carbon-containing material such as coal is minimized. Thus, high-quality particulate iron metal reduced in sulfur content is obtained. The amounts of CaO-, MgO-, and SiO2-containing substances contained in the feed material mixture are regulated so that the slug-forming ingredients have a basicity (CaO+MgO)/SiO2, as determined from the contents of CaO, MgO, and SiO2 in the feed material mixture, of 1.3 to 2.3 and further have an MgO content (MgO) of 5 to 13 wt.%.
Abstract:
The amounts of a CaO-containing substance, an MgO-containing substance, and a SiO 2 -containing substance, contained in a raw material mixture, are adjusted such that manufacturing operation is performed with the slag basicity (CaO + MgO)/SiO 2 of 1.3 to 2.3, and with MgO-concentration of 5 to 13% by mass as to the slag composition, which are dependent upon the concentration of each of CaO, MgO, and SiO 2 , contained in the raw material mixture. This provides a manufacturing method for high-quality granulated metallic iron with low sulfur concentration, wherein a raw material mixture containing an iron-oxide-containing substance such as iron ore and a carbonaceous reducing agent such as a carbon material are subjected to reducing and melting with a moving hearth-type reducing furnace while suppressing sulfur concentration as much as possible, generated in the granulated metallic iron, particularly due to the carbon material such as coal.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for efficiently manufacturing a titanium oxide-containing slag from a material including titanium oxide and iron oxide, wherein a reduction of titanium dioxide is suppressed and the electric power consumption is minimized. The method includes the steps of: heating a raw material mixture including titanium oxide, iron oxide, and a carbonaceous reductant, or the raw material mixture further including a calcium oxide source, in a reducing furnace; reducing the iron oxide in the mixture to form reduced iron; feeding the resultant mixture to a heating melting furnace; heating the resultant mixture in the heating melting furnace to melt the reduced iron and separate the reduced iron from a titanium oxide-containing slag; and discharging and recovering the titanium oxide-containing slag out of the furnace.
Abstract:
Several methods and production facilities are provided in order to solve several problems encountered in conventional methods and facilities for producing reduced iron by reducing raw material pellets of a mixture of an iron oxide powder and a reducing material powder in a rotary bed-type reducing furnace and by melting the reduced iron in a sealed-type electro-blast furnace. A few method and facilities are provided for reliable utilization of wet mixture pellets and a preferable compositions of binders for forming the raw material mixture are selected. A method of forming raw materials pellets for use in a rotary bed-type reducing furnaces comprises preparing a mixture of an iron oxide powder, a coal powder and a hydrocarbon-type binder, and adding adjusting water to the pelleting mixture. The hydrocarbon-type binder comprises tar and either one or both of polyvinylalcohol and carboxymethylcellulose.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method and facility for preventing crumbling and powderization of green pellets when producing high strength green pellets using a powder feedstock and using the pellets in a rotary hearth reducing furnace and for efficiently reducing the same. It comprises kneading by a kneader 5 a feedstock of a powder of a fine particle size (20 to 80 wt% having size of not more than 10 µm) including a metal oxide and carbon-bearing powder fed from a feed storage tank 1 and producing green pellets by a pan type pelletizer 7. The green pellets are screened by a pellet screen 9, then dried by a pellet dryer 11 and reduced by firing in a rotary hearth reducing furnace 13. At that time, the green pellets are continuously conveyed to prevent crumbling.
Abstract:
A method for abating the incidence of cluster formation of reducible iron-containing material during the direct reduction of said material is disclosed. The method generally comprises contacting the reducible iron-containing material with a cluster-abating effective amount of a dispersion of a particulate material.
Abstract:
A direct reduction process using a vertical furnace is disclosed in which iron ore (including lump ore and pellets) charged in the furnace is previously treated with a cement coating applied to the surface of the ore. The cement may be Portland cement and is used in a quantity within a predetermined range.