Process and device for charging into a smelting unit
AssigneeSiemens Vai Metals Technologies GmbH
InventorsThomas EDER, Robert MILLNER, Jan FRIEDEMANN PLAUL, Norbert REIN, Andreas SCHERNEY, Karl ZEHETBAUER
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Abstract
A process and a device for charging a primary product for pig iron into a smelting unit are provided. According to the process and device, some of the primary product that has been formed by reducing oxidic iron carriers is stored in the hot state in a reservoir tank before being supplied into the storage device or charging device that is directly connected to the smelting unit.
Claims10
A process for producing pig iron in a smelting unit from a primary product which has been obtained by reducing oxidic iron carriers using a first reducing gas, comprising:
- storing an amount of the primary product in a hot state in a reservoir tank;
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- supplying the primary product, including the amount stored in the hot state in the reservoir tank, to a storage device or charging device which is directly connected to the smelting unit;
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- adding the primary product from the storage device or charging device into the smelting unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.