Process and plant for producing hot metal

This invention relates to the production of hot metal, wherein granular raw materials containing iron oxide are partially reduced to a reduced mixture with a carbonaceous reducing agent in a fluidized bed reactor at a temperature of at least 850°C and via a discharge system, possibly after separatio...

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Main Authors NEPPER, JEAN-PAUL, STEFAN, TOBIAS
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 29.11.2012
Subjects
CHEMISTRY
MANUFACTURE OF IRON OR STEEL
METALLURGY
METALLURGY OF IRON
PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OFWROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL
TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
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Summary:This invention relates to the production of hot metal, wherein granular raw materials containing iron oxide are partially reduced to a reduced mixture with a carbonaceous reducing agent in a fluidized bed reactor at a temperature of at least 850°C and via a discharge system, possibly after separation of the magnetic and non-magnetic components by hot magnetic separation, the reduced mixture is supplied to a smelting reduction unit. To optimize the energy consumption, the reduced mixture is cooled to 600°C to 800°C in a heat exchanger apparatus before being supplied to the smelting unit, wherein a preheated process gas is used as cooling medium.
Bibliography:Application Number: AU20110260632