Apparatus for keeping optimal penetration depth formed at front end of oxygen tuyere and method for keeping the same

Abstract

An apparatus for keeping an optimal penetration depth formed at the front end of an oxygen tuyere in the producing facilities of molten pig iron utilizing non-coking coal and a method for keeping the same. A sensor for measuring distance using a laser for continuously measuring the penetration depth, is provided. Comprised is a process computer for continuously receiving the measured penetration depth from the sensor and comparing the received penetration depth with a predetermined optimal penetration depth to obtain a difference between them, and for obtaining a changing amount of a pressure in a melter gasifier through a mutual relation between a predetermined changing amount of a pressure in the melter gasifier with that of the penetration depth using the difference between the actual penetration depth with the optimal penetration depth. A scrubber cone controlling device for receiving the changing amount of the pressure in the melter gasifier from the process computer for changing an opening degree of a scrubber cone to change the pressure in the melter gasifier, is included. The apparatus and the method can actively cope with the change of the volumetric flow rate of the oxygen and the change of the constituting material in a coal packed bed, and can actively control an applied pressure in the melter gasifier to control the blowing velocity of the oxygen. The penetration depth can be optimally kept.