Jfe Steel Corporation

Shiro Watakabe

Takashi Watanabe

Jun Ishii

Akinori Murao

Daiki Fujiwara

Michitaka Sato

Kazuhira Ichikawa

Akio Shimomura

Yasuyuki Morikawa

Toshiyuki Hirosawa

Masayuki Kitahara

A method of operating a blast furnace by blowing a pulverized coal at an amount of not less than 150 kg/t&#x2212;p from tuyeres through a lance into a blast furnace, wherein when the operation is performed under a condition that lump coke charged from a furnace top has a strength defined in JIS K2151 (DI) of not more than 87%, the pulverized coal blown through the tuyere contains not more than 60 mass % as a weight ratio of coal having a particle size of not more than 74 &#x3bc;m and has an average volatile matter of not more than 25 mass %, and a blast temperature blown through the tuyere is not higher than 1100&#xb0; C., oxygen is simultaneously blown into the furnace with the blowing of the pulverized coals through the lance and a gas having an oxygen concentration of 60 vol %-97 vol % is used as a carrier gas for the blowing of the pulverized coal.

Blast furnace operation method

A method of operating a blast furnace includes two or more lances that inject reducing agents from a tuyere; injecting a solid reducing agent and a flammable reducing agent from different lances; and disposing the lances so that an axial line that extends from an end of the lance that injects the solid reducing agent and is the axial line of the lance that injects the solid reducing agent and an axial line that extends from an end of the lance that injects the flammable reducing agent and is the axial line of the lance that injects the flammable reducing agent cross each other, and so that a main flow of the solid reducing agent injected and a main flow of the flammable reducing agent injected overlap.

Method for operating a blast furnace

A method of operating a blast furnace comprising two or more lances that inject reducing agents from a tuyere including injecting a solid reducing agent and a flammable reducing agent from different lances; and arranging a position of an end of the lance that injects the flammable reducing agent closer to a near side in a injecting direction by more than 0 to 50 mm than a position of an end of the lance that injects the solid reducing agent.

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Fukuyama, Japan

Shiro Watakabe