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公开(公告)号:US20240279757A1
公开(公告)日:2024-08-22
申请号:US18441101
申请日:2024-02-14
申请人: NUCOR CORPORATION
发明人: Rodney James Dry , Mark Hayton
CPC分类号: C21B13/0013 , C21B13/105 , C21B2100/40 , C21B2400/024 , C21B2400/032 , C21B2400/062 , C21B2400/072
摘要: An improved direct smelting system and process using a smelt reduction vessel (SRV), and optionally, a cyclone converter furnace (CCF). The improved system and process utilizes a fast quench system in which hot process offgas containing molten material is quench-cooled from greater than 1400° C. (2552° F.) to no more than 600° C. (1112° F.) in a time-of-flight of no greater than 1 second. The quenching occurs using water spray injection and vaporization to cool, stress and break solid slag into slag pieces small enough to remove from the quenching system. The improved system eliminates plant availability problems associated with (i) accretion formation in the offgas train as hot process offgas cools down in a conventional (slow) manner to allow for steam-raising for power generation or other heat recovery purposes, and (ii) trigger mechanisms causing slag foaming events in the SRV that propagate up the offgas train.
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公开(公告)号:US20240182993A1
公开(公告)日:2024-06-06
申请号:US17759805
申请日:2022-03-23
发明人: John Simmons , Dale Hintsala
CPC分类号: C21B13/0046 , C21B13/10 , C21C1/10 , C21B2400/032
摘要: A hearth for a traveling hearth furnace for the production of pig iron grade nuggets, the hearth having a synthetic graphite material in direct contact with the process charge in producing a plurality of metallic iron nodules and slag. The process charge including iron containing oxide, a predetermined amount of a reductant and flux, which are carried into and through a reducing, melting and coalescing stages on the hearth, wherein resulting metallic iron nodules and slag are in direct contact with the synthetic graphite material and do not adhere to the synthetic graphite material of the hearth. The absence adherence and ease of removal minimizes any impurities in the pig iron grade nuggets and allows the hearth to be used more than one cycle without the need for any replenishment of the contact surface.
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公开(公告)号:US11692231B2
公开(公告)日:2023-07-04
申请号:US17663152
申请日:2022-05-12
发明人: Divyaraj Desai , Jessica Louis Baker Rivest , Dane Andrew Boysen , Rahul Pandey , Eugene Shin Ming Beh
CPC分类号: C21B13/0013 , C01B3/0031 , C01B2203/06 , C21B2400/032
摘要: A method for producing a homogenous molten composition and a fluid product is disclosed. For example, the method includes producing a first molten metal composition in an enclosed volume, contacting a hydrocarbon reactant with the first molten metal composition, decomposing the hydrocarbon reactant into at least one fluid product and carbon, forming a metal alloy from a mixture of the carbon and the first molten metal composition, and separating a homogenous second molten composition from the metal alloy.
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公开(公告)号:US11680299B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-20
申请号:US16560627
申请日:2019-09-04
发明人: Divyaraj Desai , Jessica Louis Baker Rivest , Dane Andrew Boysen , Rahul Pandey , Eugene Shin Ming Beh
CPC分类号: C21B13/0013 , C01B3/0031 , C01B2203/06 , C21B2400/032
摘要: A method for producing a homogenous molten composition and a fluid product is disclosed. For example, the method includes producing a first molten metal composition in an enclosed volume, contacting a hydrocarbon reactant with the first molten metal composition, decomposing the hydrocarbon reactant into at least one fluid product and carbon, forming a metal alloy from a mixture of the carbon and the first molten metal composition, and separating a homogenous second molten composition from the metal alloy.
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公开(公告)号:US20180029133A1
公开(公告)日:2018-02-01
申请号:US15550174
申请日:2016-02-12
申请人: UVAN HOLDING AB
发明人: Per-Ake LUNDSTROM
IPC分类号: B22F9/08
CPC分类号: B22F9/082 , B22F9/10 , B22F2009/0812 , B22F2009/088 , B22F2304/15 , B29C48/0022 , B29C48/04 , B29C48/05 , B29C48/30 , B29C48/3001 , B29C48/345 , B29C48/92 , B29C2948/92095 , B29C2948/92104 , B29C2948/9259 , B29C2948/926 , C21B3/08 , C21B2400/024 , C21B2400/032 , C21B2400/052
摘要: A nozzle, a tundish arrangement used for the production of granulated material, and a method and apparatus for the production of a granulated material with an improved size distribution are provided. The grain size and grain size distribution is controlled by a nozzle having a specific design. The nozzle comprises an upper inlet opening, sidewalls forming a channel, a bottom and at least one outlet opening or at least one row of outlet openings at the lower end of the channel. The outlet opening(s) in the channel have a size of at least 5 mm in the smallest dimension. A cross sectional area of the channel at the inlet AC is at least 3 times bigger than the total area of the outlet openings AT.
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