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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Roy H Whipp, Miami, FL (US);
Assignee:
Fior de Venezuela, Caracas, VE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
75436 ; 75446 ; 75450 ;
Abstract
A fluidized bed direct process is discharged for reducing raw iron ore fines and directly producing a steel product. The disclosed process includes a process for feeding raw iron ore fines into a multi-stage reactor assembly; a process for reducing fines in fluidized beds developed by a counter-current flow of reducing gas, where the reducing gas is developed in a reformer assembly; and, a process for recycling offgas exiting said reactor assembly.