PROCESS FOR DIRECTLY REDUCING IRON OXIDE-CONTAINING MATERIALS IN ROTARY KILN

• Main Authors: GERD ELSENHEIMER, HERMANN LOMMERT
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 13.05.1992
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: CHEMISTRY; MANUFACTURE OF IRON OR STEEL; METALLURGY; METALLURGY OF IRON

Materials containing iron oxide are reduced to iron sponge by means of solid carbonaceous reducing agents, coarse-grained iron oxide-containing material being charged into the charging end of the rotary furnace and fine-grained iron oxide-containing material being blown into the reduction zone. To p...