Abstract: The production of relatively low phosphorous, semifinished steel from blended presized granules of high phosphorous iron ore and limestone, directly and selectively reducing the iron oxide to sponge iron and calcined lime with the current of hot reducing gases in a shaft furnace, charging heated granules directly to a melting furnace to obtain semifinished steel and slagging off phosphorous and other undesirable components and thereafter refining the semifinished steel in a conventional electric furnace.

Abstract: Coarse, graded coal is fed to a pressurized relatively fixed bed, non-slagging gasifier from which crude gas is recovered. Fine coal is slurried in an aqueous mixture comprising the discharge from the relatively fixed bed gasifier, which discharge is composed of hydrocarbons, phenolic water and other liquids as major components and additional makeup water, if required, and the slurry is fed to a slagging, pressurized entrained flow gasifier from which additional crude gas is recovered. The two streams of gas are cleaned and then used to meet a variety of demands, including, but not limited to, gas turbine generation of electric power, manufacture of synthetic natural gas and manufacture of methanol.