Paul Wurth S.a.

Thomas Hansmann

Marc Solvi

Romain Frieden

Jean-Luc Roth

Emile Lonardi

Stefano Pivot

Maurizio Bisogno

A coke oven offtake piping system includes a pipe assembly for conveying coke oven gases from a coke oven to a collecting main, at least one spraying nozzle in the pipe assembly, and a discharge section with a discharge pipe having a discharge orifice. A gate member cooperates with the discharge orifice and is movable along the discharge orifice in order to present a closing surface to the extremity thereof, whereby the opening area of said discharge orifice can be varied for controlling the flow rate to the collecting main. The gate member is a spherical cap with a concave closing surface. The gate member is configured to pivot around a pivoting axis to expose the discharge orifice and to cover the discharge orifice, respectively.

Coke oven offtake piping system

The invention relates to a method for producing directly reduced, desulfurized iron in a multiple-hearth furnace which comprises two zones arranged one above the other and each having several hearths. Iron ore is reacted with a reducing agent in a first zone of the multiple-hearth furnace at a temperature ranging from 800&deg; C. to 1100&deg; C. to obtain metallic iron. In addition, the gases are desulfurized using desulphurizing agents, whereby the directly reduced iron is discharged from the multiple-hearth furnace and the desulfurized gases are guided into a second zone where the iron ore is preheated to a temperature ranging from 600&deg; C. to 800&deg; C.

Method for producing directly reduced, desulphurized iron

A process for thermal treatment of residual materials containing heavy metal and iron oxide, including providing a multiple-hearth furnace having hearths provided one above the other, depositing the residual materials continuously on a top hearth of the hearths, gradually transferring the residual materials to lower hearths of the hearths, introducing reducing agents to at least one of the hearths and reacting the residual materials to form heavy metals and directly reduced iron, exhausting gases containing heavy metals from below hearths of the hearths where the heavy metals are being vaporised, re-injecting at least a part of the gases into the multiple-hearth furnace from above the hearths of the hearths where the heavy metals are being vaporised, and discharging the directly reduced iron together with residues of the reducing agents in an area of a bottom hearth of the hearths in the multiple hearth furnace.

Process for thermal treatment of residual materials containing heavy metal and iron oxide

A method for producing reduced iron in a layered furnace which includes several superimposed layers. Ore is continuously fed into the layered furnace, deposited on the uppermost layer, and gradually transferred to the lower layer. A reducing agent is deposited on the uppermost layer and/or layers thereunder and is reacted with the ore in order to form directly reduced iron. The directly reduced iron and reducing agent residues are discharged in the vicinity of the lowest layer of the furnace.

Method for producing directly reduced iron in a layered furnace

Process for thermal treatment of residual materials containing oil and iron oxide in a multiple-hearth furnace, which has several hearths one above the other, the residual materials containing oil and iron oxide being mixed with a solid reducing agent, introduced continuously into the multiple-hearth furnace, charged on the top hearth and transferred gradually to the lower hearths, the residual materials containing oil and iron oxide being dried in the top hearths, the oil subsequently evaporated and pyrolised and the reducing agent reacting with the iron oxides to form directly reduced iron, the directly reduced iron being discharged with residues of reducing agents in the areas of the bottom hearth of the multiple-hearth furnace.

Method for heat-treating recyclings containing oil and iron oxide

The invention relates to a method for the heat treatment of residues containing heavy metals, carried out in a multiple-hearth furnace which is divided into three zones, each of which comprises several stacked levels. Said method consists of the following steps: continuous feeding of the heavy-metal residues into the top level of the first zone of the multiple-hearth furnace, the residues being gradually transferred to the second zone and dried during the transfer; continuous feeding of reducing agents and desulfurizers into the top level of the second zone, whereby the reducing agents and desulfirizers are mixed with the dried residues and the mixture is heated to approximately 800&deg; C., calcined during heating and gradually transferred to the third zone; heating of the mixture to approximately 1000&deg; C. in the third zone, whereby the metals are reduced and the waste gases resulting in said third zone are drawn off and treated separately; and discharge of the mixture from the multiple-hearth furnace.

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Trier, Germany

Thomas Hansmann