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US 12,595,520 B2Granted
Apparatus for the production of molten iron
AssigneeTata Steel Ijmuiden B.V.
InventorsHendrikus Koenraad Albertus Meijer, Petrus Gerardus Jacobus Broersen
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Abstract
Apparatus for the production of molten iron including a metallurgical vessel, having a surrounding wall, a cyclone part provided on top of a smelt reduction part, the cyclone part being in open connection with the smelt reduction part and having at least one supply apparatus around the circumference of the surrounding wall adjusted to introduce oxygen gas into the cyclone part, wherein the at least one supply apparatus is further adjusted to introduce a mixture of oxygen gas and a combustible gas.
Claims10
An apparatus for the production of molten iron comprising:
- a metallurgical vessel having a surrounding wall, a cyclone part and a smelt reduction part,
- wherein the cyclone part is provided above the smelt reduction part,
- wherein the surrounding wall is angled and is below and adjacent to the cyclone part and above and adjacent to the smelt reduction part,
- the cyclone part being in open connection via the surrounding wall with the smelt reduction part and having at least one introduction point around the circumference of the cyclone part adjusted to introduce oxygen gas into the cyclone part,
- at least one supply means conduit in the surrounding wall, wherein the at least one supply means conduit in the surrounding wall is adjusted to introduce a mixture of oxygen gas and a combustible gas.
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