Voest-alpine Aktiengesellschaft

Korf-stahl Ag.

Korf Engineering Gmbh

Bernhard Rinner

Ralph Weber

Bernt Rollinger

Rolf Hauk

Michael Nagl

Michael Nagle

A device is described for directly making liquid pig-iron from coarse iron ore. Hot sponge-iron particles are directly conveyed by a worm conveyor (17) through a communicating passage (19) from a direct-reduction blast-furnace shaft (2) into a smelter-gasifier (1), and a stream (24) of gas flows, after cooling to below 950.degree. C., in counter-current to the sponge-iron particles, from the smelter-gasifier (1) to the blast-furnace shaft (2), this gas stream having a volumetric flow-rate not more than 30 percent of the total reduction-gas flow reaching the blast-furnace shaft (FIG. 1).

Apparatus for directly making liquid pig-iron from coarse iron ore

A process and a device are described for directly making liquid pig-iron from coarse iron ore. Hot sponge-iron particles are directly conveyed by a worm conveyor (17) through a communicating passage (19) from a direct-reduction blast-furnace shaft (2) into a smelter-gasifier (1), and a stream (24) of gas flows, after cooling to below 950.degree. C., in counter-current to the sponge-iron particles, from the smelter-gasifier (1) to the blast-furnace shaft (2), this gas stream having a volumetric flow-rate not more than 30 percent of the total reduction-gas flow reaching the blast-furnace shaft (FIG. 1).

Process for directly making liquid pig-iron from coarse iron ore

Metallurgical melting apparatus with a blow-nozzle or burner capable of swivelling in different directions. The blow-nozzle or burner comprises at least one tube. The nozzle-head (12) has a bulge, in the example described a spherical calotte (13), which is retained between two ring-seats (14 and 15) (the FIGURE).

Metallurgical melting apparatus with a blow-nozzle or burner capable of

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Kehl am Rhein, Germany

Bernhard Rinner