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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2012
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Masakazu Sakaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Haruaki Hirayama, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Susaki, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Ishida, Kanagawa, JP;
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A direct reduced iron manufacturing system includes a gas reformer for supplying steam to reform natural gas, a gas heater being a heating unit for heating a reformed gas reformed by the gas reformer to a predetermined temperature, a direct reduction furnace for reducing iron ore directly into reduced iron using a high-temperature reducing gas, an acid gas removal unit having an acid gas component absorber and a regenerator for releasing the acid gas, and a recovery gas introduction line for supplying a recovery gas released from the regenerator to each of a reforming furnace of the gas reformer and a furnace of the gas heater.