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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2011
Eugenio Zendejas-martinez, Nuevo León, MX;
Eugenio Zendejas-Martinez, Nuevo León, MX;
HYL TECHNOLOGIES, S.A. DE C.V., Nuevo Leon, MX;
DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE, S.P.A., Buttrio, UD, IT;
Abstract
A process for producing DRI from iron ores, utilizing a gas produced from fossil fuels, containing sulfur compounds and BTX, heating said gas in a heater, preferably a regenerator, wherein heat is transferred from a previously-heated solid material to the gas. Flowing the hot gas through a bed of DRI particles, iron oxides or other equivalent material, outside of the reduction reactor, where said material adsorbs sulfur compounds and destroys BTX. The resulting gas, free from sulfur compounds and BTX, is combined with a reducing gas stream from the reduction reactor after HO and COis at least partially removed for regenerating its reducing potential, with or without undergoing previous cleaning, is used for producing DRI. One inventive embodiment comprises producing DRI at high temperature giving advantageously higher productivity and energy savings when using hot DRI in an electric arc furnace lowering the capital and operational costs of steelmaking.