Continuous processes and equipment for the treatment of solid substances in general, with specific applications for the gasification of coals and schists and direct reduction of iron ores

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The present invention relates to a process and equipment for the continuous treatment of solid substances in general with specific applications for the gasification of coals and shales and direct reduction of iron ores. The equipment comprises closed containers to which working pressure may be applied internally equipped with systems of deflectors which make them capable of the treating of solid substances in a continuous manner even when they are in the form of damp or clayey compositions, the said substances, are fed into the containers in moving beds or layers under gravity, in a downward direction and, are contacted with gases or vapors generated in the treatment per se and/or …