Abstract: According to the invention, the method for burning fragmented material is carried out in at least one shaft which comprises a preheating zone, a combustion zone and a cooling zone, coal having a swelling index > 1 being supplied via combustion lances, and the temperature of the coal in the combustion lances being maintained below a temperature value at which melting phases of the coal used are formed.

Abstract: A precursor powder for sintered ore, which offers excellent sintered ore production efficiency, can be adjusted independently of the quality of iron ore, by setting a mixing ratio [(C/F)×100] of a mass (C) of particles having a particle size of 3 mm or more in coke breeze to a mass (F) of particles having a particle size of 3 mm or more in an iron ore raw material in the range of 2% to 3%.

Abstract: A solidified product (B) is produced by charging a dust (11) generated in a steel making process and containing iron and an oxide thereof as a principal component into a mold (7) and by subjecting it to a pressure molding. A raw material charged to the mold is a mixed granulated product (11p) prepared by mixing the dust and a powder containing carbon as a principal component and by granulating the resultant mixture.

Abstract: Agglomerates with a carbonaceous material incorporated therein and a process for producing reduced metal using the agglomerates are provided. The agglomerates are prepared with high-VM coal, which is widely and abundantly produced and is less expensive, and they provide high strength after reduction without the need for finer metal oxide particles. The agglomerates are made of a carbonaceous material and a raw material to be reduced that contains a metal oxide, such as iron ore. The carbonaceous material used is a high-VM coal containing 35% or more by mass of volatile matter. The agglomerates are formed at a pressure of at least 2 t/cm2 so that the porosity thereof is reduced to 35% or less. The reduction in porosity is effective in promoting heat transfer inside the agglomerates in a rotary hearth furnace in a high-temperature reduction step so that the sintering of reduced metal proceeds efficiently in the overall regions of the agglomerates to produce a reduced metal having high crushing strength.

Abstract: A nonfired agglomerated ore which is satisfactory in reduction property in the shaft of a blast furnace and excellent in rapid heating bursting property and a production method thereof are provided. A carbon containing nonfired agglomerated ore for blast furnace which is prepared in such a way that iron oxide and a carbonaceous material are blended with each other to prepare a mixture, a binder is added to the mixture, and the mixture is kneaded, formed, and cured, wherein the agglomerated ore contains carbon in the content of 80 to 120% of the theoretical carbon quantity required to reduce the reducible oxygen in the iron ores to form metallic iron, and the binder is selected so that the crushing strength may be 7,850 kN/m2 or more at room temperature.

Abstract: Pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material of the present invention contain a carbonaceous material and iron ore mainly composed of iron oxide. The maximum fluidity of the carbonaceous material in softening and melting, and the ratio of iron oxide particles of 10 &mgr;m or smaller in the iron ore are within the range above a line which connects in turn points A, B and C shown in FIG. 1, including the line. This permits the production of pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material having excellent thermal conductivity and high strength. Reduction of the pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material produces reduced iron having high strength after reduction and a low fines ratio with improved productivity.

Abstract: A steel processing material comprises a dried post combustion material (PCM) and a slag foaming material.

Abstract: Metal baghouse dust can be solidified and thereby used for a variety of different purposes including a binder material by blending the electric arc furnace dust with a reducing agent such as ferrous chloride or ferrous sulphate. This forms a solidified mass which has excellent hardness and high temperature strength enabling it to be directly added to molten metal. Particles coated with hardened metal baghouse dust can be used in the Midrix process or can be used to add carbon to molten metal. This is an excellent way to dispose of waste metal baghouse dust.

Abstract: A method for producing the direct reduced iron pellets. The method includes pelletizing, iron oxide-containing material, internal reductant and binder to form green pellets. The binder includes a non-combustible fibrous material. The method also includes firing the green pellets to convert the green pellets into direct reduced iron pellets.

Abstract: Pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material of the present invention contain a carbonaceous material and iron ore mainly composed of iron oxide. The maximum fluidity of the carbonaceous material in softening and melting, and the ratio of iron oxide particles of 10 &mgr;m or smaller in the iron ore are within the range above a line which connects in turn points A, B and C shown in FIG. 1, including the line. This permits the production of pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material having excellent thermal conductivity and high strength. Reduction of the pellets incorporated with a carbonaceous material produces reduced iron having high strength after reduction and a low fines ratio with improved productivity.

Abstract: In the production of ferrosilicon in an electric reduction furnace by the reaction of iron-containing, silica-containing and carbonaceous materials, agglomerates containing a substantially homogeneous mixture of iron or a reducible iron compound and a carbonaceous material are used to replace at least a portion of the iron-containing materials in the furnace. These agglomerates have a weight ratio of carbon to iron of 0.2:1 to 1.5:1 in their reduced form after reaction in the furnace.

Abstract: A method of producing briquettes for use in steelmaking processes in a melting vessel. Prior to the briquetting step, the residues should have added thereto essentially uniformly distributed carbon carriers, the amount of carbon carriers added corresponding precisely to the amount required for causing an essentially complete reduction of the iron-oxide containing residues. The residues obtained as byproducts in a smelting plant can thus be reused to a high degree by adding them to a steelmaking process. A residue briquette can be supplied to the melting vessel in an amount of up to 30%. This permits the use of residues instead of scrap.

Abstract: Pellets of iron ore or other water insoluble particulate material are made from a mixture of the particulate material, moisture and a pelletizing binder by forming moist green pellets, a water displacing additive is applied to the surface of these pellets after they are substantially wholly formed, and the pellets are then dried. The preferred water displacing additive is a solution of a silicone in an organic solvent.