Abstract:
A device and a method for removing oil from lubricating oil−adhered fine scales produced in an iron manufacturing process and metal working process and oil−adhered metal particles produced in a metal working process for economically recycling oil−adhered particulates by performing a deoiling treatment, wherein the oil−adhered particulates and oil−adhered metal powder are mixed with water to form slurry, the slurry is sent to a centrifugal separator, the slurry is treated there by a centrifugal force of 300 times a gravity or more to separate the water and oil from the particulates and metal powder by properly setting the volume ratio of the slurry particles to the water and the relation between the centrifugal force and the particle residence time in the centrifugal separator.
Abstract:
A mixture comprising a metal oxide-containing powder and a carbon powder and water in an amount of 100 % or more relative to the total mass of both the powders is agitated for mixing to form a slurry. The slurry is dewatered so as to have a water content of 16 to 26 %, and the resultant product is subjected to compression molding to produce cylindrical or granular moldings having a thickness or diameter of 30 mm or less. The moldings are charged into a portion having an atmospheric temperature of 1170 DEG C of a reducing furnace of rotary hearth type, and thereafter is reduced in the furnace to produce a metal. The above method for operating a reducing furnace of rotary hearth type allows the simplification of the process from dewatering to molding and thus results in a process for reducing a metal oxide at a lower cost, and further can provide a method for economical recycling of the dust and sludge produced in a process of refining or working of a metal.
Abstract:
The present invention provides: a method for drying compacts containing water so as not to cause explosion and powdering; a method for reducing the compacts after being dried with great efficiency in a rotary-hearth-type reducing furnace; and a rotary-hearth-type metal reducing furnace. In the present invention, when compacts comprising powder containing metal oxide and carbon are dried, the critical value of a water evaporation rate, beyond which explosion occurs, is determined from the size and porosity of the compacts, then the water evaporation rate is controlled to a value not exceeding the critical value and, by so doing, the increase in the internal pressure of the compacts caused by the generation of water vapor is prevented. By the method, the explosion and cracking of the compacts are prevented. Further, when compacts are dried in a rotary-hearth-type reducing furnace, explosion is prevented by controlling the heat supply rate to the compacts through the above method and successively the compacts are incinerated and reduced in the same furnace.
Abstract:
A method for producing a reduced iron compact having a high crushing strength, hardly powdering, and having a high reducibility by using a baking reducing furnace of solid reducing type such as a rotary hearth reducing furnace, a reduced iron compact produced by the method, and a method for smelting-reducing the reduced iron compact in a blast furnace. In the method for producing the reduced iron compact, the compact is so produced that the atomic molar ratios of the carbon in a raw powder of a mixture of an iron oxide-containing powder and a carbon-containing powder and the oxygen chemically bonded to iron, manganese, nickel, zinc, and lead or the content of the ferric oxide in the raw powder is in a specific range and that the porosity is in a specific range, and the compact is placed on the hearth of a reducing furnace which the hearth rotates the compact, heated by the heat of the burning gas in the upper part of the furnace, and baked and reduced above a predetermined temperature.
Abstract:
A method of reduction treatment of metal oxides characterized by using as a material a powder containing metal oxides and containing alkali metals and halogen elements and further, in accordance with need, carbon, mixing said material with water to produce a slurry, then dehydrating this and charging the dehydrated material, mixed with another material in accordance with need, into a rotary hearth type reduction furnace for reduction.
Abstract:
In a method for producing a reduced iron pellet, when a powder formed article including iron oxide and carbon is heated and reduced in a rotary hearth furnace, a formed article produced using a raw material, in which an average diameter of the iron oxide is 50 microns or less and a ratio of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide in a reduction zone is from 0.3 to 1, is reduced at a temperature of 1400°C or less, thereby producing a reduced iron pellet in which a metallization ratio of iron is 50 to 85% and a ratio of residual carbon is 2% or less.
Abstract:
A method of increasing the apparent density and shape quality of the granulated material manufactured by compressingly forming waste plastics for recycling as chemical materials, and a method of economically thermally decomposing the waste granulated plastics, comprising the steps of shredding the waste plastics containing film-shaped plastics of 15 wt.% or more by a shredding machine (1) to manufacture the plastic pieces of a size suitable for a compressingly forming treatment, manufacturing cylindrical granulated material by a compressive forming machine (4) having a through-hole die of 5 to 80 mm in diameter, and thermally decomposing the waste granulated plastics for recycling into chemical materials or thermally decomposing the granulated material in a coke furnace or a blast furnace for recycling.