Abstract: A flash ironmaking system and a flash ironmaking method are provided. The flash ironmaking system includes a pulverized coal gasifier; a drying pre-reduction kiln; and a flash furnace having a horizontal bottom in which a molten iron layer region, a slag layer region and a carburizing bed layer region are sequentially formed, a reduction tower, a concentrate nozzle, and a flue.

Abstract: A blast furnace system is used wherein the coke rate is decreased by recycling upgraded top gas from the furnace back into its shaft section (which upgraded top gas is heated in a tubular heater prior to being recycled). The top gas, comprising CO, CO2 and H2, is withdrawn from the upper part of the blast furnace; cooled and cleaned of dust, water, and CO2 for increasing its reduction potential and is heated to a temperature above 850° C. before being recycled thus defining a first gas flow path used during normal operation of the blast furnace. Uniquely, a second gas flow path for continued circulation of top gas selectively through the heater and a cooler during operation interruptions of the blast furnace allows time for gradual controlled cool down of the heater in a manner to avoid heat-shock damage to the tubular heater.

Abstract: A blast furnace where coke is combusted with oxygen, instead of air, and where a top gas comprising CO, CO2, H2, and without excess nitrogen is withdrawn from the upper part of the blast furnace, cleaned of dust, the H2/CO volume ratio adjusted to between 1.5 to 4.0 in a water shift reactor, water and CO2 are removed (increasing its reduction potential), heated to a temperature above 850° C. and fed back to the blast furnace above where iron starts melting (thereby increasing the amount of metallic iron reaching the dead-man zone and decreasing the amount of coke used for reduction). Also carbon deposit problems caused by heating the CO-containing recycled gas are minimized by on-line cleaning of the heater tubes with steam without significantly affecting the reduction potential of the recycled reducing gas.

Abstract: A process serves for the carbothermic/electrothermic production of crude iron or other base products in furnaces (23) by using mixtures comprising iron ore, oxides and/or carbonates of calcium (A) and carbonaceous materials, with formation of carbon monoxide-containing gases.

Abstract: In a method and a device for operating a smelting reduction process, at least part of an export gas from a blast furnace or a reduction unit is thermally utilized in a gas turbine and the exhaust gas of this gas turbine is used in a waste heat steam generator to generate steam. The remaining part of the export gas is fed to a CO2 separation apparatus, the tail gas thereby obtained being fed to a waste heat steam generator and burned for additional steam generation. The combustible components of the tail gas are sent for thermal utilization in a steam generator, so that the overall energy balance of the thermal use of the export gas is improved. In addition, a further part of the export gas is qualitatively improved by the CO2 separation apparatus, so as to generate a high-quality reduction gas which can be supplied for metallurgical use.

Abstract: The present invention proposes a method for feeding a burden to a blast furnace (32), wherein the method comprises providing a charging device (38) having at least one material hopper (40), the material hopper (40) comprising a hopper chamber (42), a material inlet aperture for feeding a burden into the hopper chamber (40), and a material discharge aperture for feeding a burden from the hopper chamber (40) to the blast furnace (32); the material inlet aperture having an associated inlet seal valve 44) for opening and closing the material inlet aperture and the material discharge aperture having an associated material discharge valve (46) for opening and closing the material discharge aperture.

Abstract: Process gas purification device (2) for a melt reduction system (1) comprising at least one reduction reactor (3) and a melting gasification reactor (4), a first line system (5) for discharging a furnace gas (6) from the reduction reactor (3) and a second line system (7) for discharging a generator gas (8) from the melting gasification reactor (4) wherein both line systems (5,7) lead to a respective wet scrubbing system (11, 12). The furnace gas or generator gas flow can be throttled preferably by way of a control element (41) that varies a control gap (40) and the scrubber or cooling liquid (49) can be collected and drained. The first wet scrubber system (11) of the first line system (5) for routing the furnace gas (6) and the second Venturi scrubber system (12) of the second line system (7) for routing the generator gas (8) both discharge into a common mist elimination device (14).

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to produce stainless steel for all stainless steel products both in the austenitic and the ferritic range, based on liquid pig-iron and FeCr solids, without using a supply of electrical energy. According to the invention, the liquid pig-iron, after being pre-treated in a blast furnace (1), is subjected to a DDD treatment (dephosphorization, desiliconization and desulfuration), is heated, finished or alloyed and deoxidated. The quantity of slag-free liquid pig-iron that has been pre-treated in the blast furnace (1) is separated and introduced into two classic “twin” AOD-L converters (2, 3), where the required chemical process steps (of the DDD treatment and of the heating, decarburization and alloying stages) take place in parallel contrary processes using autogenous chemical energy, the DDD treatment being carried out first in the first twin AOD-L converter (2) and the decarburization being carried out first in the second twin AOD-L converter (3).

Abstract: In a method for producing pig iron using iron ore with a high content of zinc, a blast furnace raw material 2 is produced using iron ore with a high content of zinc which contains 0.01 mass % or more of zinc and 50 mass % or more of iron, pig iron is produced by charging the blast furnace raw material 2 into a blast furnace 1 and, at the same time, zinc-containing dust 4 in a blast furnace discharge gas is recovered, and zinc 6 is recovered from the zinc-containing dust 4 using a reduction furnace 5. A mixed raw material into which the zinc-containing dust 4, a carbonaceous solid reducing material and a slag-making material are mixed is preferably charged on a movable hearth, and the mixed raw material is preferably reduced by supplying heat from an upper portion of the movable hearth so as to recover zinc 6 while producing reduced iron 7.

Abstract: A method for the melting of pig iron in a blast furnace (1) operated with oxygen or in a melt-reduction plant, with a reduction region. Purified crude gas is discharged from the reduction region and is recirculated into the reduction region with the addition of hydrocarbons. The purified crude gas is mixed with hydrocarbons and is also blended with a reduction gas which has a temperature of above 1000° C. and which is generated by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons by means of oxygen gas having an oxygen content of above 90% by volume, in order to form a recirculation gas with a temperature of above 800° C. The recirculation gas is recirculated into the reduction region according to an auto-reforming process.

Abstract: An integrated system for blast furnace iron making and power production based upon higher levels of oxygen enrichment in the blast gas is disclosed. The integrated system leads to; 1) enhanced productivity in the blast furnace, 2) more efficient power production, and 3) the potential to more economically capture and sequester carbon dioxide. Oxygen enhances the ability of coal to function as a source of carbon and to be gasified within the blast furnace thereby generating an improved fuel-containing top gas.

Abstract: A dust discharging system for a blast furnace includes a dust collector for collecting flue dust from flue gas produced from the blast furnace, a first discharge conduit connected to the dust collector, a separator connected to the first discharge conduit for separating residual flue gas present in the flue dust, and an airtight tank disposed below the first discharge conduit to receive the flue dust in a dry state separated from the residual flue gas.

Abstract: In a method and a device for operating a smelting reduction process, at least part of an export gas from a blast furnace or a reduction unit is thermally utilized in a gas turbine and the exhaust gas of this gas turbine is used in a waste heat steam generator to generate steam. The remaining part of the export gas is fed to a CO2 separation apparatus, the tail gas thereby obtained being fed to a waste heat steam generator and burned for additional steam generation. The combustible components of the tail gas are sent for thermal utilization in a steam generator, so that the overall energy balance of the thermal use of the export gas is improved. In addition, a further part of the export gas is qualitatively improved by the CO2 separation apparatus, so as to generate a high-quality reduction gas which can be supplied for metallurgical use.

Abstract: In a method for producing pig iron using iron ore with a high content of zinc, a blast furnace raw material 2 is produced using iron ore with a high content of zinc which contains 0.01 mass % or more of zinc and 50 mass % or more of iron, pig iron is produced by charging the blast furnace raw material 2 into a blast furnace 1 and, at the same time, zinc-containing dust 4 in a blast furnace discharge gas is recovered, and zinc 6 is recovered from the zinc-containing dust 4 using a reduction furnace 5. A mixed raw material into which the zinc-containing dust 4, a carbonaceous solid reducing material and a slag-making material are mixed is preferably charged on a movable hearth, and the mixed raw material is preferably reduced by supplying heat from an upper portion of the movable hearth so as to recover zinc 6 while producing reduced iron 7.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for renovating a combined system consisting of a blast furnace supplied with an oxidant fluid received at least partly from an air/gas separation unit (ASU). The method consists in injecting, before renovation, at least 50% of the flow rate of the blower feeding the blast furnace into an ASU to produce oxygen whose purity is greater than 90% by volume of O2 which feeds the blast furnace, in controlling the blower airflow rate and the pressure of the air derived therefrom by a regulator which measures the flow rate and/or pressure at the input and/or output of a cleaning stage which is mounted upstream of the separation unit to control the flow rate and pressure of the air derived from the blower. The fluid feeding the blast furnace consists of pure oxygen or diluted by air produced by the cryogenic separation unit.

Abstract: Process and equipment for blast furnace ironmaking using pure oxygen and gas The process for blast furnace ironmaking using pure oxygen and gas includes putting a mineral aggregate consisting of pellet, alkaline sinter, coke and solvent into the furnace from the furnace top, wherein each ton of iron is assigned with coke of 170-200 kg; blasting pure oxygen into the furnace, wherein each ton of molten iron is blasted with oxygen of 120-200 Nm3, and ejecting gas that is pressured and preheated by the ball type hot blast stove into the furnace so as to directly reducing pellet and iron-containing material, wherein the gas is preheated to a temperature raging from 900° C. to 1150° C. and to a pressured up to 0.1-0.6 MPa; purifying and cooling the gas produced in the reducing reaction, and transmitting the gas into a residual pressure power generation device via tubes to be reused and is recovered into a gas cylinder or recycled for use.

Abstract: Steel work gases (blast-furnace gases, coke-oven gases, converter gases, etc.) are burnt with an exhaust gas from a gas turbine, optionally with a supply of natural gas and of air, in a postcombustion section between the outlet of the gas turbine and the inlet of a recovery boiler, the steam from which is utilized especially for producing electrical energy.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for continuously reducing carbon monoxide (CO), uncombined free hydrogen (H2) and volatile hydrocarbons (VOC's) in molten metal refining vessel off-gases without forming undesirable oxides of nitrogen. Off-gases are directed to a reaction chamber wherein CO, H2 and VOC's are oxidized at a controlled temperature and with a controlled quantity of O2 So as to realize substantially total oxidation of gases present with minimized formation of oxides of nitrogen. Volume and energy of treated gases directed for baghouse treatment are reduced in comparison with prior practice.

Abstract: Iron ore is reduced to molten iron by introducing the ore into a reactor while combusting coal with pure oxygen in the reactor. The molten iron phase, which forms at the bottom of the reactor, is stirred by injecting carbon monoxide into the molten iron. In a preferred embodiment, finely pulverized iron ore is injected with pure oxygen tangentially into a cyclone section of the furnace situated on top of a converter section, thereby causing melting and preliminary reduction of the ore to take place in the cyclone section. Primary reduction of the iron oxide occurs in the converter section of the furnace.

Abstract: A method and a plant for reducing iron ore to pig iron in a blast furnace with the use of carbon, wherein a partial quantity of the carbon is admixed to the iron ore in the form of coke which ensures that the bulk material column is loosened and supported and that the gas can penetrate through the bulk material column in the blast furnace, and wherein the remaining partial carbon quantity is injected as a substitute reducing agent into the blast furnace. Prior to being injected into the blast furnace, the entire partial carbon quantity forming the substitute reducing agent is converted into a low-nitrogen reducing gas by gasification in a gasification reactor arranged spatially separate from the blast furnace.

Abstract: A method for increasing iron production by integrating blast furnace ironmaking with direct reduction ironmaking wherein cryogenic rectification links the two systems and produces input materials for both.

Abstract: In order to utilise wastes or residues containing iron in the oxide form and/or iron in the metallic form and/or containing carbon (38,25,34), a process is used with which molten pig iron (16) or steel preliminary products can be produced, iron ore (4) being reduced to sponge iron in a direct reduction zone (2), the sponge iron being melted in a melting-gasification zone (15) with the supply of carbon-containing material (29) with gasification of the carbon-containing material (29) to reducing gas, and the reducing gas is fed into the direct reduction zone (2), reacted there and drawn off as top gas.

Abstract: Method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace. At least a portion of a top gas from a blast furnace is collected, dried and then heated to an elevated temperature preferably in the range of 900.degree.-1000.degree. C. An oxygen-enriched hydrogenaceous fuel is introduced into the furnace bosh and the heated dried top gas is introduced into the lower half of the furnace stack above the furnace bosh at a point above which the coke in the furnace is not reactive.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing cold bonded pellets comprises the steps of mixing fine iron ore with binder and pelletizing the mixture of the fine iron ore and the binder to manufacture green pellets, charging the green pellets into a travelling grate, a layer of the green pellets which has a predetermined height being formed on the travelling grate, blowing gas containing carbon dioxide into the layer of the green pellets on the travelling grate, the green pellets being cured by the gas containing carbon dioxide, and the gas having passed through the layer of the green pelllets being discharged, and drying the curen green pellets. The gas containing carbon dioxide has a concentration of 55 vol. % carbon dioxide or more. The gas containing carbon dioxide has a concentration of 20 vol. % nitrogen or less. The gas containing carbon dioxide is blown into the green pellets layer at a flow rate of 0.1 to 1.0 Nm.sup.3 /sec. for 1 m.sup.2 of the area of the grate, Nm.sup.