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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2014
Applicant:
Forest Vue Research, Llc, Knoxville, TN (US);
Inventor:
Michael P. Barkdoll, Knoxville, TN (US);
Assignee:
Forest Vue Research LLC, Knoxville, TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21B 15/00 (2006.01); C22C 38/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C22C 38/00 (2013.01); C21B 15/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
In view of the foregoing embodiments of the disclosure provide a high value steel/carbon product from a low value iron-containing waste material and process for producing the steel/carbon product. The high value steel/carbon product is derived from a mixture of metallurgical coal and an oxidized iron waste material under a reducing atmosphere. The steel/carbon product has a porosity of greater than about 60% and a density of greater than about 900 kg/m3 and the steel component of the steel/carbon product has a percent of metalization of greater than about 85 wt. %.