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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 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, AU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21B 5/00 (2006.01); C22B 5/10 (2006.01); C21C 5/54 (2006.01); C21C 5/00 (2006.01); C21C 5/46 (2006.01); C21C 5/04 (2006.01); C22B 5/12 (2006.01); C21B 13/00 (2006.01); C21B 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C21C 5/00 (2013.01); C21B 5/00 (2013.01); C21B 5/001 (2013.01); C21B 13/0006 (2013.01); C21B 13/023 (2013.01); C21C 5/04 (2013.01); C21C 5/4606 (2013.01); C22B 5/10 (2013.01); C22B 5/12 (2013.01); Y02P 10/136 (2015.11);
Abstract
A method of starting a molten-bath based melting process includes establishing a sufficiently large and stable 'hot zone' for ignition of oxygen and coal in a main chamber of a smelting vessel by independent means, i.e. independently of and before supplying cold oxygen and coal into the main chamber.