Method of production of cement bonded agglomerated ore

A method of production of cement bonded agglomerated ore which adds Portland cement as a binder to dust produced from an iron works and/or fine powder ore, treats the same by mixing, moisture adjustment, and kneading steps, then pelletizes it by a pan pelletizer and suitably thereafter cures it to produce blast furnace-use cold pellets or sintering-use minipellets having the required crushing strength, which method charges the raw pellets from the top of a vertical type container having the following three conditions and discharges them from the bottom end to form a moving bed and cures the raw pellets by a heat of hydration reaction of cement in the period from charging to discharging:

• 1) Having a bottom flaring taper of 1/10 to 1/30 at the entirety or top of the vertical type container body;
• 2) Arranging at the bottom end of the vertical type container a table feeder of a size able to cover the entirety of the cross-sectional area of the bottom of the vertical type container and being able to guarantee the descent of the charged matter by a piston flow;
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• 3) Having a feeding device which, when the charging of raw pellets is stopped, immediately raises cured pellets discharged from the bottom of the vertical type container to the top of the vertical type container by a bucket elevator and supplies them instead of the raw pellets so as to be able to prevent the charging surface from dropping in the vertical type container.