Abstract:
A process and material for producing foamed slag by which the foaming of a slag with a high chromium oxide content can be achieved. An electric arc furnace is charged with a mixture of metal oxides and carbon and, below the slag at the metal-slag interface, the metal oxide is reduced by carbon and limestone and becomes thermally discordant. The occurring gases cause the slag to foam due to the formation of bubbles.
Abstract:
To be able to produce metal melts using any metal carriers incurring in metallurgical practice as the charging materials, namely in the most diverse quantitative compositions, a plant for producing metal melts is provided with the following characteristic features: an electric arc furnace vessel (1) provided with one charging opening (11, 21) for a metal melt and/or scrap and/or direct reduced metal, in particular direct reduced iron, and/or ore and at least one electrode (16) and one slag tapping means (22), an oxygen-blowing converter vessel (3) provided with one melt tapping means (41), wherein the oxygen-blowing converter vessel (3) and the electric arc furnace vessel (1) form a unit which is connected via an overflow weir (34) and which is rigidly mounted on the foundation and, wherein the bath surface related specifically to the bath volume is smaller in the oxygen-blowing converter vessel (3) than in the electric arc furnace vessel (1) and the oxygen-blowing converter vessel (3) shares a common reaction space with the electric arc furnace vessel (1), which space is arranged above the bath level of these vessels.
Abstract:
To be able to produce metal melts using any metal carriers incurring in metallurgical practice as the charging materials, namely in the most diverse quantitative compositions, a plant for producing metal melts is provided with the following characteristic features: an electric arc furnace vessel (1) provided with one charging opening (11, 21) for a metal melt and/or scrap and/or direct reduced metal, in particular direct reduced iron, and/or ore and at least one electrode (16) and one slag tapping means (22), an oxygen-blowing converter vessel (3) provided with one melt tapping means (41), wherein the oxygen-blowing converter vessel (3) and the electric arc furnace vessel (1) form a unit which is connected via an overflow weir (34) and which is rigidly mounted on the foundation and, wherein the bath surface related specifically to the bath volume is smaller in the oxygen-blowing converter vessel (3) than in the electric arc furnace vessel (1) and the oxygen-blowing converter vessel (3) shares a common reaction space with the electric arc furnace vessel (1), which space is arranged above the bath level of these vessels. (FIG. 1).
Abstract:
A method of improving the post-combustion heat recovery in a basic oxygen furnace by controllably forming a foamy slag. The foamy slag is generated by increasing the lance height and reducing the rate of lance height reduction during the oxygen blowing cycle. The foamy slag is controlled to prevent slopping by calculating the approximate starting point of the peak decarburization period for the charge and then adjusting the oxygen flow rate to be at a minimum at the commencement of the peak decarburization period.
Abstract:
A furnace 10 for smelting iron ore and/or refining molten iron 20 is equipped with an overhead pneumatic lance 40, through which a center stream of particulate coal 53 is ejected at high velocity into a slag layer 30. An annular stream of nitrogen or argon 51 enshrouds the coal stream. Oxygen 52 is simultaneously ejected in an annular stream encircling the inert gas stream 51. The interposition of the inert gas stream between the coal and oxygen streams prevents the volatile matter in the coal from combusting before it reaches the slag layer. Heat of combustion is thus more efficiently delivered to the slag, where it is needed to sustain the desired reactions occurring there. A second stream of lower velocity oxygen can be delivered through an outermost annulus 84 to react with carbon monoxide gas rising from slag layer 30, thereby adding still more heat to the furnace.
Abstract:
A slag-foaming composition and process for use in electric arc furnace steelmaking. The compositions comprise from about 15 to 80 wt % of a carbon source, the remainder consisting substantially of a source of an oxide of calcium; alternatively, the compositions comprise from about 15 to 30 wt % of a carbon source, the remainder consisting substantially of dolomite lime. The process consists of the addition, in the course of steelmaking using an electric arc furnace, of the steelmaking additive compositions of the invention to the charge subsequent to the initial scrap steel melt down.
Abstract:
During the production of non-stainless steel, slag containing a high proportion of metal oxides, primarily iron oxide, is formed during the smelting of the solid material in the electric arc furnace. The concentration of the iron oxide often reaches values of more than 20%. This slag has a poor foaming capability and does not permit the typical characteristics of a carbon steel slag to be achieved. In order to cause such a slag to foam, according to the invention it is proposed to load the electric arc furnace with pellets or briquettes (8) which consist of a defined mixture of an iron oxide carrier and an iron carrier as ballast material, of carbon as reducing agent and also of a binder material, which react in the electric arc furnace in a reducing manner, floating under the slag (7) in the steel melt (6). The reaction gases (12) produced in this way consist primarily of carbon monoxide and advantageously support the foaming of the slag.
Abstract:
Soundproofed conduit to discharge fumes, advantageously associated with assemblies to discharge fumes for melting systems in steel production plants, the conduit being located between the ventilation system (14) and an outlet chimney (13), at least the first segment (19a) of the discharge conduit defining a section with a value (A) through which the fumes transit, the conduit (12) defining a path, from the relative ventilation system (14) to the discharge chimney (13), comprising at least two counter-opposed and controlled changes in direction (15a, 15b) defining at least respective consecutive segments (19a, 19b, 19c) arranged one at an angle to another, the changes in direction being functionally configured so as to cause phase and counter-phase effects of the sound waves generated by the fluid in transit, the phase and counter-phase effects having the purpose of at least deadening partly the sound waves caused by the passage of the fluid.
Abstract:
A burner/injector for providing a localized impingement flame or multiple flames for scrap heating and melting through use of a fluid fuel and at least one oxygen rich oxidizing gas. The burner/injector includes a liquid-cooled combustor for generating an impinging flame directed toward a scrap pile and a structure for injecting a controllable amount of a solid carbonaceous fuel and a controllable flow of high velocity oxidizing gas into space that has been previously occupied by the impinging flame. The burner/injector may be equipped to inject a solid slag forming materials and/or slag deoxidizing materials and/or to inject an additional oxidizing gas for burning a small portion of preheated scrap, post-combustion of CO and iron-carbon melt refining. The burner/injector may be arranged as a simple liquid-cooled combustor permanently mounted through the furnace wall or roof, and may be equipped with single or multiple channels for injection of solid material and high velocity oxidizing gas. Separate injecting lances for high velocity oxidizing gas and/or solid carbonaceous fuel may be mounted on the furnace. Both the lances and the combustors may be equipped with a nozzles for additional injection of the additional oxidizing gas.
Abstract:
A process of continuous metal refinement comprising feeding molten metal to a reaction chamber, introducing gaseous and solid oxidants, adding bulk materials, fully converting the metal and slag into a foamy emulsion, creating, in the reaction chamber, an increased pulsating pressure and a considerable deviation of a system from thermodynamic equilibrium by way of creating a self-organizing system of chemical reaction with gas evolution and taking off the emulsion into a refining sump at the critical speed of egress of two-phase liquid, separating the metal and slag in said refining sump and withdrawing the gas through a high layer of emulsion at a definite rate. A unit for continuously refining metal, comprising a spherical reaction chamber (1) with a channel (5) for supplying molten metal and a channel (4) for feeding bulk materials, with a device for feeding a gaseous oxygen made in the form of oppositely arranged lances, a cylindrical connection channel (2), a refining sump (3) with tap holes (20, 15) for withdrawing metal and slag, respectively, the slag tap hole is divided into two vertical channels (16, 17) for separating slag and gas, respectively, a channel (13) for the delivery of slag-forming materials, and lances (11, 12) for feeding oxygen.