Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tsutomu Yamada

Mitsuharu Kishimoto

Takuya Maeda

Keikichi Murakami

Kenichi Yajima

Yoshihiko Takemura

Atsuyoshi Kubotani

Metal oxide ore is subjected to smelting reduction to obtain the molten metal by a method which comprises prereducing said ore in solid state in a prereduction furnace, thereafter melting said ore and carrying out final reduction thereof in a smelting reduction furnace, and at the same time introducing gas generated in said smelting reduction furnace and having reductive capability into said prereduction furnace, the rate of prereducing said ore in said prereduction furnace being controlled at a value with a maximum of the order of 33 percent for raising the rate of utilization of energy to a maximum limit.

Method of smelting reduction of ores containing metal oxides

A metal-making apparatus is suited for the production of molten iron from iron ore which is in a state of particles with a wide range in size. Included are a solid-state prereduction furnace for preliminarily reducing the raw ore particles in a solid state, and a smelting reduction furnace for smelting the prereduced ore particles and reducing them in a molten state. High temperature reducing gas generated within the smelting reduction furnace is directed into the prereduction furnace and blown up through a distributor on which there is loaded a charge of raw ore particles. The ore particles of larger size form a fluidized bed on the distributor and so are prereduced by making intimate contact with the gas. Ore particles of smaller size, on the other hand, are carried away from the fluidized bed by the waste gas and thereby prereduced while being recirculated through the prereduction furnace. Discharged from the prereduction furnace, the prereduced ore particles of larger size are recharged by the force of gravity into the smelting reduction furnace. The prereduced ore particles of smaller size are recovered from the waste gas and pneumatically injected into the smelting reduction furnace.

Metal-making apparatus involving the smelting reduction of metallic

This disclosure relates to a rotary kiln for heating and calcining lime, waste, etc. and to a method of direct reduction of metal oxide using such a kiln. A cylindrical outer shell is mounted for rotation on its axis, and a stationary inner tube extends into the interior of the shell. Fuel and/or combustion air flow passages extend within the tube, and burner nozzles are supported by the tube and are connected to the passages. The tube is concentrically or eccentrically mounted adjacent the upper side of the space within the shell, thereby positioning the burner nozzles at the optimum positions.

Rotary kiln and method of using such a kiln

Static bed type iron oxide reducing apparatus comprises reduction furnaces and cooling chambers respectively associated with the furnaces. Iron oxides are charged into the furnaces and reducing gas is applied to the raw materials to carry out a reducing reaction. After the iron oxides in the furnace have been metallized to a sufficient level, they are transferred to the cooling chamber to be cooled therein.

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Kobe, Japan

Tsutomu Yamada