Abstract:
[PROBLEMS] To provide a rotary hearth furnace which is of a general-purpose type, which can properly determine a thermal expansion tolerance in the rotary hearth furnace, and has a simple hearth structure which does not cause any damage to the hearth even after long-term operation. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A radial thermal expansion tolerance X defined by formula (2) is set between an outer peripheral or inner peripheral corner refractory material and the refractory material or between the refractory materials, and the requirement represented by formula (1) is satisfied. X + A 2 + B 2 ) ··(1) wherein A represents the width of an outer peripheral corner refractory material (7); and B represents the height of a support metal material (11) of the corner refractory material (7). X = ([X0=] distance between the outer end part of the outer peripheral support metal material (11) and the inner end part of the inner peripheral support metal material (12) at the operation temperature) - ([X1=] sum of the length at room temperature in a radial direction of a plurality of refractory materials (6) and corner refractory materials (7,8)) ··(2)
Abstract:
A method for producing a titanium containing slag, which comprises heating a raw material mixture containing a titanium oxide, an iron oxide and a carbonaceous reducing agent or another raw material mixture further containing a calcium oxide source in addition to the above in a reducing furnace to reduce the iron oxide in the mixture to a reduced iron, supplying the product to a heating type melting furnace, heating the product in the melting furnace to melt said reduced iron and separate it from a slag containing a titanium oxide, and discharge the resultant titanium oxide containing slag to the outside of the furnace for recovery. The method can be used for producing a titanium oxide containing slag from a material containing a titanium oxide and an iron oxide with good efficiency, while suppressing the reduction of titanium dioxide and minimizing electric power consumption.