Voest-Alpine Aktiengesellschaft

Wilfried Pirklbauer

Martin Nagl

Ferdinand Jarema

Klaus Wieser

There is disclosed a shaft furnace for the direct reduction of iron ores. It includes a gas feed device arranged centrally in the bottom of the shaft furnace in the longitudinal axis of the shaft furnace and having a central cavity. From the cavity, a plurality of gas outlets for the reduction gas, superposed in stages and passing through the gas feed device in its upper part, lead into the interior of the shaft furnace. In order to provide a shaft furnace with which operational failures caused by the gas feed device are prevented and with which the gas feed device is subject to little wear so that it need be exchanged in large time intervals only, the gas feed device is designed as a double-shelled hollow body. The shell interspace of the hollow body is connected to at least one supply duct and at least one discharge duct for a coolant.

Shaft furnace arrangement for the direct reduction of iron ores

In a method for the production of synthesis or reduction gases from carbonaceous fuels and oxygen-containing gases endothermally reacting with the fuels, the starting products are reacted in a plasma reaction zone. In order to provide a method by which the production of reduction gases is feasible up to the highest flow rates in an operationally safe manner and by an optimum utilization of the energy supplied, the components to be reacted are commonly conducted through an elongate reaction chamber as a feed fluid. A central plasma jet is formed over the total longitudinal extension of the reaction chamber. The arrangement, i.e., the elongate reaction chamber, includes a plasma electrode (cathode) on one end and a counter electrode (anode) on the other end; supply ducts for the feed fluid and discharge ducts for the synthesis or reduction gases in the region of the plasma electrode end are provided.

Method, and an arrangement, for producing synthesis gases

Apparatus for discharging hot flowable solids comprises conical conveyor screws, which are arranged to form a star-shaped array and contained in respective conveyor troughs and at their inner ends are rotatably mounted in a centrally disposed hollow body. In order to ensure a gas-tight seal of the furnace and to permit a simple replacement of the conveyor screws, the conveyor troughs and the centrally disposed, open-bottomed hollow body are constituted by a bottom structure, which is adapted to be flange-connected to the shell of the furnace. The largest depth of each conveyor trough is at least as large as the largest outside diameter of the associated conveyor screw. Each conveyor trough is closed at its outer end by an end wall, which carries a discharge housing, which contains the outer end of the associated conveyor screw and carries a discharge fitting.

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Neuhofen, Austria

Wilfried Pirklbauer