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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
Tata Steel Limited, Mumbai, IN;
Rodney James Dry, City Beach, AU;
Jacques Pilote, Woodlands, AU;
Hendrikus Koenraad Albertus Meijer, Uitgeest, NL;
Tata Steel Limited, Mumbai, IN;
Abstract
A smelting apparatus that includes (a) a smelting vessel () that is adapted to contain a bath of molten metal and slag and (b) a smelt cyclone () for pre-treating a metalliferous feed material positioned above and communicating directly with the smelting vessel The apparatus also includes an oft-gas duct () extending from the smelt, cyclone for discharging an off-gas from the smelt cyclone. The off-gas duct has an inlet section () that extends upwardly from the smelt cyclone and is formed to cause off-gas to undergo a substantial change of direction as it flows through the inlet section of the off-gas duct.