PROCESS AND INSTALLATION FOR PRODUCING MOLTEN STEEL OF SCRAP

• Main Authors: PIRKLBAUER; WILFRIED, WEBER; ALFRED
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.12.1992
• Subjects: BLASTING; CHEMISTRY; DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS,IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KINDOF FURNACE; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; FURNACES; HEATING; KILNS; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METALLURGY; METALLURGY OF IRON; OVENS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS; PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OFWROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; RETORTS; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS; WEAPONS

There is disclosed a process for the production of molten steel or steel pre-products from scrap contaminated with combustible waste-like substances and heated and melted in a metallurgical meltdown vessel. In order to be able to dispose of the forming noxious substances at low costs and to keep the offgases free of impurities detrimental to the environment, the gas forming during charging of scrap into the metallurgical vessel and during heating and melting of the scrap, after conditioning to a temperature range of between 1000 DEG and 1500 DEG C., is used as a heating gas in a lime-burning process including a moving lime fixed-bed under release of its sensible heat. Sulfur- and chlorine-containing components of the heating gas are absorbed on the burnt lime and the dust contained in the heating gas is separated in the lime fixed-bed. The heating gas, which is purified and cooled at its passage through the lime fixed-bed, subsequently is finally purified in a filtering plant.