Method of producing liquid pig iron or liquid steel precursors
CA 2259681 A1 · Owner: Kepplinger, Leopold Werner · Inventors: Kepplinger, Leopold Werner; Schenk, Johannes; Park, Moon Duk
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The invention relates to a method for producing liquid pig iron (43) or liquid steel precursors from a hardening material formed by iron ore (5) and additives and having at least partially fines. To achieve a uniform reduction of the iron ore with optimum utilization of the reducing gas the iron ore (5) , is fractionated into at least two fractions each of them having different , grain size distribution during a first reduction stage (1) with the help of the reducing gas. Each fraction is then reduced with the reducing gas in its own fluidized bed, whereby the reducing gas maintains a first fluidized bed (6) containing the coarse grain fraction and separates the fine grain fraction …
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- Filed June 26, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 26, 2017.
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