Granulation of metallurgical slag
AssigneePaul Wurth S.A.
InventorsMarc Solvi, Bob Greiveldinger, Mathias Hoffmann, Claudine Friederici, Daniel Michels
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Abstract
A process for granulation of hot liquid slag wherein the hot liquid slag is mixed with solid metallic particles so as to form a solidified, vitrified slag cake mixed with said metallic particles and said slag cake is discharged in a water bath.
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A process for granulation of hot liquid slag wherein said hot liquid slag is mixed with solid metallic particles so as to form a solidified, vitrified slag cake mixed with the metallic particles and the slag cake mixed with the metallic particles is discharged in a water bath, wherein the hot liquid slag is poured first into a mold and subsequently the solid metallic particles are poured into the mold containing the hot liquid slag and mixed with the solid metallic particles so as to form the solidified, vitrified slag cake and wherein the slag cake is broken down into a plurality of pieces of slag cake.
A process for granulation of hot liquid slag, comprising:
- casting hot liquid slag into a mold;
- dropping solid metallic particles into the hot liquid slag to mix the particles and the slag and produce a solidified, vitrified slag cake;
- breaking the solidified, vitrified slag cake into a plurality of first pieces of slag cake;
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- discharging the first pieces of slag cake into a water bath.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.