Abstract: The purpose is to produce inactivated coal in a short time while preventing spontaneous combustion. A coal inactivation processing apparatus for inactivating coal with an oxygen-containing process gas, wherein the coal inactivation processing apparatus comprises a kiln assembly (103) for passing coal (4) from the base-end side to the distal-end side therein, base-end-side process gas supply means (121-125) for supplying a process gas (13) to the base-end side of the interior of the kiln assembly (103), distal-end-side process gas supply means (131-135) for supplying a process gas (14) to the distal-end side of the interior of the kiln assembly (103), process gas oxygen concentration adjusting means (124a, 134a, 135, 136a) for adjusting the oxygen concentration of the process gases (13, 14) supplied into the kiln assembly (103), and a cooling device (160) for cooling the coal (4) inside the kiln assembly (103).

Abstract: Provided is a slag removal device for a blow pipe, that reduces the risk of pipe breakage, etc., and is capable of achieving easy and reliable slag removal using a simple device configuration. The slag removal device comprises a blow pipe (30) that injects auxiliary fuel pulverized coal, together with hot air, from a tuyere (22) for a blast furnace main body (20) that produces pig iron from iron ore. The slag removal device for a blow pipe including a component that melts on to the pulverized coal slag as a result of the hot air and/or the combustion heat of the pulverized coal comprises a fluid jet nozzle (80) that sprays fluid towards a slag adhesion area inside the blow pipe (30).

Abstract: Provided is a blow-pipe structure for a blast furnace facility configured so as to be capable of suppressing slag adhesion by using a simple structure, even if pulverized coal with an unadjusted softening temperature is used. The blow-pipe structure is attached to a tuyere in a blast furnace main body that produces pig iron from iron ore. The blow-pipe structure injects auxiliary fuel pulverized coal together with hot air and slag from the pulverized coal containing a component that is melted by the hot air and/or heat from the combustion of the pulverized coal combustion heat. The blow-pipe structure has an internal/external double pipe structure having an internal pipe that continues from a header pipe that supplies the hot air, to the vicinity of the tuyere and opens, said internal pipe being provided inside an external pipe that continues from the header pipe to the tuyere.

Abstract: Provided is a blow-pipe structure for a blast furnace facility configured so as to be capable of suppressing slag adhesion by using a simple structure, even if pulverized coal with an unadjusted softening temperature is used. The blow-pipe structure is attached to a tuyere for a blast furnace main body that produces pig iron from iron ore, said blow-pipe structure injecting auxiliary fuel pulverized coal together with hot air, and slag from the pulverized coal containing a component that is melted by the hot air and/or heat from combustion of the pulverized coal. A resisting element that increases flowpath resistance on the pipe inside wall surface side and concentrates the flows of the hot air and the pulverized coal to the flowpath axis center is provided on the downstream side of an injection lance that inserts pulverized coal into the blow pipe.

Abstract: Provided is a slag removal device for a blast furnace, capable of readily and reliably achieving slag removal using a simple device configuration, even when pulverized coal is used that has not had the softening temperature thereof adjusted, and capable of reducing as much as possible the risk of pipe damage, etc. The slag removal device for a blow pipe is provided in a blow pipe that injects auxiliary fuel pulverized coal together with hot air from a tuyere for a blast furnace main body that produces pig iron from iron ore. A jet nozzle that injects solids having a higher fusion point than the temperature in the vicinity of the tuyere and having a particle diameter greater than that of the pulverized coal, into pulverized coal that flows inside the blow pipe and into the hot air, is provided in the slag removal device.

Abstract: A pulverized-coal injection device is configured so as to inject pulverized coal from a tuyere of a blast-furnace main unit) together with heated, compressed injection air, and upgraded coal that has a self-heating property and that is upgraded from low-grade coal is used as a raw material for the pulverized coal. In addition, a heat exchanger is provided as a heat transporting unit for transporting heat due to a self-heating effect of this upgraded coal to a site requiring heat. This heat exchanger heats intake air by using the heat due to the self-heating effect of the upgraded coal that passes through the pulverized-coal supplying pipe to perform heat exchange with, for example, air that is taken into an injection-air feeding device. Furthermore, a deactivating unit for deactivating the upgraded coal such that a predetermined level of the self-heating effect thereof is retained may be provided.

Abstract: This blast furnace installation is configured such that when pulverized coal, which has been prepared by pulverizing high-grade coal, is pneumatically conveyed into a supply tank by a combustion gas, pulverized coal, which has been prepared by drying, dry-distilling, cooling, and pulverizing low-grade coal with a drying device, a dry-distillation device, a cooling device, and a pulverization device, is supplied from a storage tank by a feeder and pneumatically conveyed into the supply tank by a nitrogen gas, and then the pulverized coals in the supply tank are pneumatically conveyed from a supply line into an injection lance by a carrier gas, a control unit controls the feeders so as to gradually increase the supply amount of pulverized coal while maintaining the total amount of supply amount of pulverized coal and supply amount of pulverized coal to be supplied to the tuyere at a prescribed amount.

Abstract: Provided is a method for preparing blast furnace blow-in coal that can, at a low cost, obtain blast furnace blow-in coal that suppresses occlusion by blast furnace blow-in ash or accretion of blast furnace blow-in ash in a pathway leading to a tuyere of a blast furnace main body, while suppressing a decrease in the amount of heat release. The method includes selecting first and second coal types satisfying conditions (S2, S3), on the basis of the CaO content in the ash when the oxides of Al, Si, Ca, and Mg in the ash is 100 wt % and the Al2O3 content in the ash is 20 wt %, deriving the mixing ratio of the first and second coal types that results in the CaO content in the ash of the mixed coal being at least 40 wt % (S4), and mixing the first and second coal types (S5) at the mixing ratio.

Abstract: This blast furnace facility is provided with: a blast furnace main body (110); starting material charging means (111-113) that charge a starting material (1) containing iron ore and coke into the interior of the blast furnace main body (110) from the apex thereof; hot airflow blow-in means (114, 115) that blows in a hot airflow (101) from a tuyere to the interior of the blast furnace main body (110); and blast-furnace-blow-in charcoal supply means (120-129) that blow in blast-furnace-blow-in charcoal (11) from the tuyere to the interior of the blast furnace main body (110). The blast-furnace-blow-in charcoal supply means (120-129) blow in a blast-furnace-blow-in charcoal (11) having an oxygen atom content (on a dry basis) of 10-20 wt % and an average pore size of 10-50 nm.

Abstract: On the basis of data obtained by means of analyzing coal, a first and second coal type satisfying conditions are selected, the ash melting point of the mixed coal resulting from mixing the first and second coal types is derived on the basis of a four-dimensional state diagram for SiO2—CaO—MgO-20% Al2O3, on the basis of the ash melting point of the mixed coal and the four-dimensional state diagram, an additive causing the ash melting point of the mixed coal to be at least 1400° C. at the lowest quantity when added to the mixed coal is selected from SiO2, MgO, and CaO, the addition quantity of the additive is derived, the first coal type and second coal type are mixed to result in the mixed coal, and the addition quantity of the additive is added to the mixed coal.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing carbonized coal that enables production of carbonized coal in which the mercury content is reduced and excessive reduction of the volatile matter content is suppressed without carrying out complicated work. The method includes acquiring industrial analysis and elemental analysis data about raw coal (S11); performing a computation by using an amount of heat (A) obtained from the industrial analysis data or Dulong's formula, a fuel ratio (B) based on the industrial analysis data, a hydrogen content (C) in relation to the carbon content based on the elemental analysis data, and an oxygen content (D) in relation to the carbon content based on the elemental analysis data (S12); and deriving a carbonization temperature (T) of the raw coal and setting a temperature for carbonizing the raw coal on the basis of the carbonization temperature (T) of the raw coal (S13).

Abstract: In blast-furnace-blow-in charcoal that is blown in from a tuyere to the interior of a blast furnace main body of a blast furnace facility, the oxygen atom content (on a dry basis) is 10-20 wt % and the average pore size is 10-50 nm.

Abstract: A method for producing blast-furnace blowing coal to be blown through a tuyere into the interior of the blast-furnace body of a blast furnace, wherein: the composition and melting point of the ash from the coal are analyzed in advance; the composition of the blast-furnace slag is analyzed in advance; the blast-furnace slag contains more calcium oxide than the coal ash does; and the coal and the blast-furnace slag are mixed, on the basis of the composition and melting point of the coal ash and the composition of the blast-furnace slag, and in a manner such that the amount of calcium oxide contained in a quaternary system phase diagram including silicon dioxide, magnesium oxide, aluminum oxide and calcium oxide, which are the principal components of the coal ash and the blast-furnace slag, causes the melting point of the ash to be 1400° C. or higher.

Abstract: A blast furnace installation (100) equipped with a blast furnace body (110), a hot air blowing means (114, 115, etc.) for blowing hot air into the blast furnace body (110) through a tuyere, and a pulverized coal supply means for supplying pulverized coal (2) into the blast furnace body (110) through the tuyere. The pulverized coal (2) is obtained by means of dry distillation of low-grade coal. The pulverized coal supply means is equipped with: a pneumatic conveying means (115-120) for pneumatically conveying the pulverized coal (2) to the tuyere by means of a carrier gas (107) made of a mixture of air (106) and an inert gas (102); a temperature sensor (121) for detecting the temperature of the carrier gas (107) near the tuyere; and a control unit (122) for adjusting the mixing ratio between the air (106) and the inert gas (102) in the carrier gas (107) of the pneumatic conveying means (115-120) on the basis of information from the temperature sensor (121).

Abstract: A blast furnace (100) is equipped with: a blast-furnace body (110); material-insertion means (111-113) for inserting a material (1) containing iron ore and coal into the interior of the blast-furnace body from the top section thereof; hot-air blowing means (114, 115) for blowing hot air (101) into the interior of the blast-furnace body through the tuyere thereof; and blast-furnace-blowing-coal supply means (120-129) for blowing blast-furnace-blowing coal (11) into the interior of the blast-furnace body through the tuyere thereof. Therein, the blast-furnace-blowing-coal supply means blow a blast-furnace-blowing coal having the proportion of oxygen atoms contained therein (dry base) set to 10-20 wt %, and the average pore diameter set to 10-50 nm, while the hot-air blowing means measures the melting point of the ash in the material in advance, and blows hot air which is 100-150° C. lower than the melting point of the ash.

Abstract: A blast furnace includes: a blast furnace body; raw material charging means for charging raw material into the blast furnace body; hot air blowing means for blowing hot air into the blast furnace body; a drying apparatus etc. for evaporating moisture in low-grade coal; a dry distillation apparatus etc. for carbonizing dried coal; a cooling apparatus etc. for cooling carbonized coal; a pulverization apparatus etc. for pulverizing the carbonized coal cooled by the cooling apparatus; a storage tank for storing powdered coal; a nitrogen gas supply source, a conveyor line and a cyclone separator etc. for conveying the powdered coal pulverized by the pulverization apparatus to the inside of the storage tank by generating a gas flow with the nitrogen gas; and an injection lance etc. for feeding the powdered coal inside the storage tank to hot air that is blown into the blast furnace body.

Abstract: Included are: a direct reduction furnace for reducing iron ore directly into reduced iron using a high-temperature reducing gas including hydrogen and carbon monoxide, an acid gas removal unit having an acid gas component absorber for removing, with an absorbent such as an amine-based solvent, acid gas components (CO2, H2S) in a reduction furnace flue gas discharged from the direct reduction furnace, and a regenerator for releasing the acid gas, and a degradation product removal unit for separating and removing a degradation product in the absorbent used by circulating through the absorber and the regenerator.

Abstract: A direct reduced iron manufacturing system includes a gas reformer for supplying steam to reform natural gas, a gas heater being a heating unit for heating a reformed gas reformed by the gas reformer to a predetermined temperature, a direct reduction furnace for reducing iron ore directly into reduced iron using a high-temperature reducing gas, an acid gas removal unit having an acid gas component absorber and a regenerator for releasing the acid gas, and a recovery gas introduction line for supplying a recovery gas released from the regenerator to each of a reforming furnace of the gas reformer and a furnace of the gas heater.

Abstract: Multilayer expanded polypropylene resin beads that are heat moldable at low steam pressure and can provide an expanded mold with sufficient rigidity and heat resistance. The beads are formed from a polypropylene resin and a coating layer formed from a different polypropylene resin. The multilayer expanded resin beads can be molded in-mold at a steam pressure lower than the steam pressure for molding single-layer expanded beads made from the polypropylene resin which forms the core layer. The coating layer to core layer resin weight ratio in the multi-layer resin beads is not less than 0.001 and not greater than 0.040 and the expansion ratio of the expanded beads, the average value of the thickness of the coating layer of the expanded beads, calculated based on the coating weight ratio of the multi-layer resin beads, is not less than 0.1 ?m and not greater than 3.0 ?m.

Abstract: Provided are polyvinylidene fluoride resin expanded beads which can be molded by in-mold molding and thus stably provide, without impairing excellent characteristics inherent in polyvinylidene fluoride resin, molded articles having excellent mechanical properties. Polyvinylidene fluoride resin expanded beads, characterized in that when 1 to 3 mg of the expanded beads are subjected to heat-flux type differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) wherein the beads are heated from 25° C. to 200° C. at a temperature rise rate of 10° C./min, the obtained DSC curve (of first heating) has both an inherent endothermic peak which is inherent in polyvinylidene fluoride resin and one or more higher-temperature endothermic peaks which appear on the higher-temperature side of the inherent endothermic peak, the quantity of heat of melting of the higher-temperature endothermic peaks being at least 0.5 J/g.