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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1982

Filed:

Jan. 29, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:

Charles W Sanzenbacher, Charlotte, NC (US);

Assignee:

Midrex Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F27B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
266156 ; 75 35 ;
Abstract

Apparatus for the direct reduction of iron oxide utilizing sulfur-containing gas such as coke oven gas for the process gas. Sulfur-containing gas is heated by indirect heat exchange and injected into the furnace above the reduction zone to transfer the sulfur to the hot burden. The apparatus includes an upper bustle zone for prereduction and sulfur transfer, a lower bustle zone for the final reduction of the burden to metallized iron, and means to recycle spent top gas through cooling zone as cooling gas.


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