Praxair Technology, Inc.

East China University of Science and Technology

William John Mahoney

John Erling Anderson

Adrian Christian Deneys

Michael F Riley

Gary Thomas Vardian

Balu Sarma

Stephen A Manley

Michael Francis Riley

Dennis R Farrenkopf

Bryan R Bielec

Jesse E Cates

Kevin W Albrecht

Sabuj Halder

Robert J Churpita

Arsenio C Enriquez, Jr

Arsenio C Enriquez

Tao Wang

Jie Zhang

Ronald Joseph Selines

David B George

Ahmed F Abdelwahab

Pravin Chandra Mathur

Yifei Wang

Xin Gong

Fuchen Wang

Haifeng Liu

Larry E Cates

Ozhan Turgut

Guangsuo Yu

Zhenghua Dai

Richard Thomas Semenza

Zhijie Zhou

William Eric Slye

Ronald Holmes

Wim Coessens

Al Zoladz

Terrance T Pavlack

Dany BourdeaudHuy

Yi Ma

Christopher Herby

William Jeffrey Wilson

Zhuoyong Yan

Qinghua Guo

Kyle Brent Wright

Jeffrey C Mocsari

Ian Francis Masterson

Robert Churpita

Kevin Albrecht

Larry Cates

Jesse Cates

Stephen Manley

Oxygen is injected into the windbox of a fluidized bed ore roaster to form a fluidizing and oxidizing gas stream of elevated oxygen content which is fed into only the feed zone into which the ore to be fluidized is fed.

Oxygen injection in fluid bed ore concentrate roasting

A hot oxygen nozzle and uses thereof in a gasifier, the hot oxygen nozzle comprising an outer-ring spout, a middle-ring spout, an inner-ring spout, and a central spout all sequentially and coaxially disposed, and a cooling system; the gasifier is an entrained-flow gasifier provided with one or more nozzles on a certain plane or a plurality of planes at the top or on the periphery of the gasifier body. The nozzle has a simple structure and is easy to make and maintain. A fuel gas passage is disposed inside the nozzle. Oxygen can be heated by a combustion of fuel gas; and high-temperature and high-speed oxygen can directly ignite carbonaceous materials such as coal-water slurry and coke-oven gas. The present invention can be applied in a gasifier and then in the final process of synthesis gas preparation.

Hot oxygen nozzle and uses thereof in gasifiers

The present invention relates to formation of a controllable, high velocity, pneumatic stream of particulate solids which can be injected into a furnace containing, for instance, a liquid such as a bath of molten metal.

Controllable solids injection

A method and system for method for removing solid accretions from a copper anode or holding furnace using coherent jet lance assembly directed towards the solid accretions in the bottom portion of the copper anode furnace to melt the solid accretions over an extended period of time without damage to the furnace refractory proximate a point of stream impingement.

Method and system of removing accretion buildup in a furnace

A method and system for the copper anode refining is provided in which coherent jet technology is employed to heat the molten blister copper and/or melt scrap copper charges using a melting flame, oxidize the sulfur in the molten blister copper, and reduce the oxygen in the molten blister copper using top-blown coherent jet gas streams from one or more multi-functional, coherent jet lance assemblies. The present system and method employs a microprocessor-based controller operatively controlling the flow of an oxygen-containing gas, an inert gas, a reducing agent and a fuel to the coherent jet lance. The disclosed copper anode refining system and method greatly improves copper production while lowering oxidation/reduction cycle times and minimizing NOemissions.

Copper anode refining system and method

A stream of hot oxygen is formed by providing a duct and a fuel lance movable axially within the duct, flowing gaseous fuel out of the lance into the duct, mixing it in the duct with gaseous oxidant, flowing the mixture out of the duct into an atmosphere which is hot enough that it ignites the mixture without aid of an ignition source other than said atmosphere, and combusting said mixture in a flame that does not extend into said duct; then moving the lance so its fuel outlet approaches the duct exit orifice so that the base of said flame moves inside said duct to the fuel outlet; and then moving the lance to draw the fuel outlet and the flame attached thereto away from the exit orifice into the duct; and increasing the flow rate of gaseous oxidant in said duct, so that combustion of fuel within the duct heats uncombusted oxygen which emerges as a stream of hot oxidant.

Reliable ignition of hot oxygen generator

A method and apparatus for forming internally shrouded supersonic coherent jets comprising an inert gas, such as pure argon and argon/oxygen mixtures. This method and apparatus can be employed to produce low-carbon steels with a top lance in basic oxygen steelmaking.

Injection method for inert gas

A method of injecting oxygen into a melt located within a metallurgical furnace having a heated furnace atmosphere in which oxygen and fuel is injected into 1 or more nozzles having passageways of converging-diverging configuration under choked flow conditions to produce supersonic jet or jets discharged from the passageways. Fuel is injected into internal circumferential locations of the passageways so as to impart a structure to the jets being discharged that have an outer circumferential region containing a mixture of fuel and oxygen and a central region containing essentially oxygen. Such a structured jet upon discharge interacts with the furnace atmosphere to create an outer shear-mixing zone in which the outer circumferential layer mixes with the heated furnace atmosphere and auto-ignites to produce a flame envelope surrounding a supersonic jet of oxygen. The jet of oxygen and flame envelope can be directed against a melt contained within the metallurgical furnace for injection of oxygen into the melt.

Oxygen injection method

A method for operating a vacuum vessel with a coherent jet wherein vacuum conditions are established within the vessel and an anchored or attached flame envelope resulting from subsonic velocity fuel and oxidant is provided around at least one supersonic gas stream.

Method for operating a vacuum vessel with a coherent jet

A method for producing low carbon steel wherein molten steel is decarburized in a three stage refining procedure comprising a first stage wherein oxygen is provided for decarburization enveloped in a gas shroud, a second stage wherein oxygen is provided for decarburization enveloped in a flame shroud, and a third stage wherein inert gas or oxygen and inert gas is provided enveloped in a flame shroud.

Method for producing low carbon steel

A coherent jet lance and operating method employing two sets of ports for delivering fuel and oxidant respectively for formation of a flame envelope around one or more gas jets wherein the ports of at least one set and preferably of each set are angled outwardly on the lance face with respect to the lance axis.

Coherent jet system with outwardly angled flame envelope ports

A coherent jet lance and operating method wherein the need for a lance extension is eliminated using two rings of ports to deliver respectively fuel and oxidant flame envelope gases around the primary gas jets to maintain the gas jets coherent wherein the ports of the two rings are aligned on the lance face.

Extensionless coherent jet system with aligned flame envelope ports

A coherent jet lance and operating method wherein the need for a lance extension is eliminated using a single ring of ports to deliver flame envelope gases around the primary gas jets to maintain the gas jets coherent.

Coherent jet system with single ring flame envelope

A method and apparatus for establishing one or more coherent jets from a lance wherein liquid fuel is provided into a recession on the lance face along with motive gas, and is used to generate a flame shroud to maintain jet coherency.

Coherent jet system using liquid fuel flame shroud

A metal refining method particularly useful with a basic oxygen steelmaking process, wherein during an initial period, refining oxygen is provided into the furnace headspace surrounded by a shroud comprising oxygen and inert gas, and during a subsequent period refining oxygen is provided into the furnace headspace surrounded by a flame shroud.

Metal refining method using differing refining oxygen sequence

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