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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 1986
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1984
Jorge O Becerra-Novoa, Apodaca, MX;
Francisco Cantu-Hernandez, Monterrey, MX;
Enrique R Martinez-Vera, Monterrey, MX;
Hylsa, S.A., Monterrey, MX;
Abstract
A method of operating a vertical moving bed reduction reactor for reducing iron ore to sponge iron and having a reduction zone in the upper portion thereof and a cooling zone in the lower portion thereof to obtain a desired degree of metallization of the reduced ore in said reduction zone and a desired degree of carburization in said cooling zone which comprises supplying to said reactor a predetermined flow of reducing gas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen and, varying the ratio of reducing gas flow to said reduction zone to the reducing gas flow to said cooling zone to vary at least one of the amount of metallization attained in said reduction zone and the amount of carburization attained in said cooling zone, maintaining the carbon dioxide concentration in said reduction zone at a value which yields the desired degree of metallization therein and maintaining the carbon dioxide concentration in said cooling zone at a value which yields the desired degree of carburization in said cooling zone.