Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Hiroshi Itaya

Tetsuya Yamamoto

Yoshitaka Sawa

Kanji Takeda

Hideshi Katayama

Tetsuya Fujii

Kazuo Kimura

Yoshiaki Hara

Takao Hamada

Shinobu Takeuchi

Takashi Ushijima

Hideyuki Momokawa

Masahiko Satoh

Shoji Miyagawa

A traveling hearth for producing reduced metal by charging and stacking a raw material containing a metal-containing material and a solid-reducing material on a horizontally moving hearth, arranged for disposing a solid-reducing material layer on the hearth, forming concave portions at the solid-reducing material surface, stacking the raw material on the surface of the solid-reducing material layer, reducing the raw material by at least once heating and melting the material on the hearth to separate metal and gangue and ash ingredients, and discharging metal from the hearth.

Method of producing a reduced metal, and traveling hearth furnace for producing same

Producing reduced metal by charging and stacking a raw material containing a metal-containing material and a solid reducing material on a horizontally moving hearth of a traveling hearth furnace, by disposing a solid reducing material layer on the hearth, forming concave portions at the solid reducing material surface, stacking the raw material on the surface of the solid reducing material layer, reducing raw material by at least once heating and melting the material on the hearth to separate metal and gangue and ash ingredients, and discharging metal from the hearth.

Method of producing a reduced metal, and traveling hearth furnace for

Method and apparatus for collecting valuable products, particularly zinc, from a zinc-containing substance such as electric furnace dust. A shaft type smelting reduction furnace has a packed bed of a carbonaceous solid reducing agent and has upper and lower tuyeres, and a zinc-containing substance is injected through tuyeres to reduce and vaporize zinc, which is directly contacted by a liquid coolant thereby forming a slurry, and the zinc product is collected from the slurry.

Method of treating zinc-containing substance

Fluidized bed gas dispersing device

A method and apparatus for producing molten metal from powder state ore through smelting process to be performed in a shaft furnace, utilized the reducing material having grain size greater than that n-times of the gas flow velocity corresponding grain size to charge from the top of a shaft furnace for forming fluidized bed at the upper section of the furnace and a reducing material filled section below the fluidized bed. The method and apparatus for smelting the powder state ore also takes the reducing material having smaller grain size to be blown into the furnace through tuyeres.

Method for producing molten metal from powder state ore

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Chiba, Japan

Hiroshi Itaya