PROCESS AND PLANT FOR PRODUCING HOT METAL

• Main Authors: NEPPER, JEAN-PAUL, STEFAN, TOBIAS
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 16.08.2016
• 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

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...