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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frank M Stephens, Jr, Lakewood, CO (US);
Assignee:
Iron Carbide Holdings, Ltd., Lakewood, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B / ; C01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
75505 ; 423439 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a two-stage method for pretreating an iron oxide-containing feed material prior to conversion of the material into an iron carbide-containing product. The feed material is heated in the first stage in an oxidizing atmosphere to volatilize and/or thermally stabilize sulfide sulfur and evaporate moisture and heated in a reducing atmosphere in the second stage to reduce ferric iron to ferrous iron. The reduced material is then introduced into a system in which the iron oxides are substantially converted to iron carbide.