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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2012
Applicant:
Technological Resources Pty, Limited, Brisbane, AU;
Inventors:
Jacques Pilote, Doubleview, AU;
Rodney James Dry, City Beach, AU;
Hendrikus Koenraad Albertus Meijer, Uitgeest, NL;
Assignee:
Technological Resources Pty, Limited, Brisbane, Queensland, AU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21C 7/00 (2006.01); C21B 11/08 (2006.01); C21C 5/50 (2006.01); F27D 3/15 (2006.01); C22B 5/10 (2006.01); C22B 5/12 (2006.01); C21B 13/00 (2006.01); C21C 5/56 (2006.01); F27D 3/16 (2006.01); F27D 3/18 (2006.01); F27B 3/10 (2006.01); F27B 3/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C21B 11/08 (2013.01); C21B 13/0013 (2013.01); C21C 5/567 (2013.01); C22B 5/10 (2013.01); C22B 5/12 (2013.01); F27B 3/105 (2013.01); F27B 3/225 (2013.01); F27D 3/1536 (2013.01); F27D 3/16 (2013.01); F27D 3/18 (2013.01); C21C 7/0087 (2013.01); F27M 2003/13 (2013.01); Y02P 10/122 (2015.11); Y02P 10/136 (2015.11); Y02P 10/265 (2015.11); Y02P 10/283 (2015.11);
Abstract
A method of starting a smelting process in a smelting vessel includes heating frozen slag and forming molten slag and draining molten slag from a forehearth connection via a forehearth and establishing a clear flow path through the forehearth connection and thereafter hot starting the smelting process.