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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2012
Hado Heckmann, Linz, AT;
Robert Millner, Loosdorf, AT;
Gerald Rosenfellner, Ertl, AT;
Abstract
A method for reducing material containing iron oxide in a solid bed in a reduction shaft and converting the material to pre-reduced material in the reduction shaft by introducing pre-reduction gas into the solid bed at a pressure p1. Pre-reduced material is introduced from the reduction shaft into a melter gasifier and there finally reduced by reduction gas under a pressure p2. A top gas at pressure p3 is diverted from above the solid bed out of the reduction shaft. A dust exhaust gas having a pressure p4 is diverted from the solid bed out of the reduction shaft. The relationships p1>p4 and p1>p3, and preferably also p4>p3, apply. A device carries out such a method.