Voest-alpine Aktiengesellschaft

Korf-stahl Ag.

Korf Engineering Gmbh

Bernt Rollinger

Ralph Weber

Bernhard Rinner

Rolf Hauk

Michael Nagl

Emil A Elsner

Walter Maschlanka

Gerhard Sanders

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

A process for the production of molten crude iron and reduction gas is described wherein the molten iron and gas are formed in a smelting gasifier, to which is introduced at the upper portion thereof preheated sponge iron of particle size between 3 mm and 30 mm and coal to form a fluidized bed, and an oxygen-containing gas at the lower portion thereof, and controlling the ratio of oxygen-containing gas and coal to maintain a high temperature zone in the lower portion of the gasifier and a lower temperature zone in the upper portion thereof, the oxygen-containing gas being introduced substantially immediately above the resulting melt which is formed at the bottom of the gasifier.

Process for producing liquid crude iron and reduction gas

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