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EP1930678B1
EP1930678B1 EP07023876A EP07023876A EP1930678B1 EP 1930678 B1 EP1930678 B1 EP 1930678B1 EP 07023876 A EP07023876 A EP 07023876A EP 07023876 A EP07023876 A EP 07023876A EP 1930678 B1 EP1930678 B1 EP 1930678B1
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21B—MANUFACTURE OF IRON OR STEEL
    • C21B13/00—Making spongy iron or liquid steel, by direct processes
    • C21B13/02—Making spongy iron or liquid steel, by direct processes in shaft furnaces
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27B—FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • F27B1/00—Shaft or like vertical or substantially vertical furnaces
    • F27B1/005—Shaft or like vertical or substantially vertical furnaces wherein no smelting of the charge occurs, e.g. calcining or sintering furnaces
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27B—FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • F27B1/00—Shaft or like vertical or substantially vertical furnaces
    • F27B1/10—Details, accessories or equipment specially adapted for furnaces of these types
    • F27B1/16—Arrangements of tuyeres
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27B—FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • F27B1/00—Shaft or like vertical or substantially vertical furnaces
    • F27B1/10—Details, accessories or equipment specially adapted for furnaces of these types
    • F27B1/18—Arrangements of dust collectors
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27D—DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS OR RETORTS, IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FURNACE
    • F27D17/00—Arrangements for using waste heat; Arrangements for using, or disposing of, waste gases
    • F27D17/30—Arrangements for extraction or collection of waste gases; Hoods therefor

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  • the present invention relates to a vertical shaft furnace according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • US 4,054,444 discloses such a shaft furnace.
  • a feed opening for the burden and furnace gas outlet are provided at the top of the shaft furnace.
  • a burden of iron oxide material may be fed into the shaft furnace through the feed opening.
  • the furnace gas outlet serves for discharging used furnace gas.
  • the feed opening forms the upper end of a reduction zone, in which bustle gas ports are provided in order to introduce reduction gas, which contains carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon produced by a reformer.
  • Reduction gas reduces the iron oxide at high temperatures directly into iron called DRI.
  • the reduction zone is followed by a transition zone where hot material passes to a cooling zone with minimum changes in the chemistry of the product.
  • the cooling gas collecting chamber is for receiving hot cooling gas, which has passed through the hot DRI material cooling zone, and recycling it through the cooling gas scrubber to the cooling zone of the furnace. In this ay the DRI is cooled, prior to discharge through the bottom of the shaft furnace discharge feeder.
  • the reduction gas is produced in a reformer and then fed to the bustle gas ports by way of the bustle gas lines.
  • the reduction gas looses heat, so that after its entry into the shaft furnace it may only contribute to the heating of the burden in the reduction zone in minor way.
  • High temperature in the reaction zone is, however, necessary for an effective reduction.
  • a vertical shaft furnace of the initially mentioned kind is known from US 2002/0003699 A1 .
  • the furnace known from this document includes a reformer, that produces a reducing gas, which is directed to the reduction zone.
  • the gas bustle line which connects the reformer with the reduction zone, is equipped with an injection system for injecting an oxygen and fuel mixture into the reducing gas transported in the gas bustle line.
  • the injection systems feed a burnable gas mixture into the bustle gas lines, which burns under development of heat. This thermal energy is absorbed by the reduction gas, so that the temperature thereof is increased in the bustle lines. In this way the reduction gas may feed more thermal energy into the shaft furnace.
  • the injection system comprises a mixing zone for premixing and preburning the hydrocarbon and the oxygen.
  • a particular high energy efficiency is obtained.
  • the injector system is controllable.
  • the amounts of hydrocarbon and/or oxygen may be regulated separately in order to control the temperature of the combustion and in particular the temperature rise in the duct.
  • the injection system comprises two lines, which are connected to the mixing portion, wherein one line is connected to the hydrocarbon source and one line is connected with the oxygen source and one line extends at least partly within the other line.
  • the two injection systems may be connected with different hydrocarbon sources. With the help of this arrangement one may feed to the reduction zone of the shaft furnace reduction gas onto levels.
  • Figure 1 shows a shaft furnace 100 according to the present invention in schematic view, which is in particular adapted for the production of directly reduced iron.
  • the shaft furnace 100 has a generally cylindrical form and is vertically arranged.
  • a furnace exit gas outlet 120 is provided at the top of the shaft furnace 100, the central axis of the shaft furnace outlet 120 being inclined with regard to the horizontal axis of the shaft furnace 100 by an angle of 45 to 55°.
  • the furnace gas outlet 120 is connected with a furnace gas main pipe 123 in such a way, that the central axis of the furnace gas outlet 120 and of the furnace gas main pipe 123 turn at an angle of 90°.
  • a feed opening 109 for a burden 115 of iron oxide material is provided at the top of the shaft furnace 100.
  • the shaft furnace 100 is designed in such a way, that the burden 115 will move under the influence of gravity from the top to the bottom of the shaft furnace downwardly through the interior of the shaft furnace 100.
  • the interior of the shaft furnace 100 is devided into a reduction zone 101, the upper end of which forms the feed opening 109, and a cooling zone 103, which is arranged immediately underneath the reduction zone 101.
  • a discharge opening 190 is provided, through which the reduced iron may be discharged from the shaft furnace 100.
  • the shaft furnace 100 comprises a reducing gas feeding device 130, which is connected with two bustle gas lines 131, 132 with two sets of bustle gas ports 133, 134.
  • the bustle gas ports 133, 134 are arranged at two vertically different levels on the periphery of the shaft furnace wall.
  • Both bustle gas lines 131, 132 are equipped with an injection system 400, 410 for a gas mixture.
  • the two injection systems 400 410 are each connected with a hydrocarbon source 401, 415 and an oxygen source 402, wherein the two hydrocarbon sources 401, 415 may differ from one another.
  • Both injection systems 400, 410 are designed in such a way, that the amount of hydrocarbon and oxygen may be regulated separately.
  • FIG. 2 shows an enlarged side view of the injection system 400.
  • the injection system 400 comprises two lines 403, 404, wherein the line 403 is connected with the hydrocarbon source 401 and the line 404 is connected with the oxygen source 402.
  • the line 403 runs coaxially within the line 404, and both lines are connected to a mixing portion 405.
  • the mixing portion 405 has a discharge opening 406 for the hydrocarbon-oxygen-mixture.
  • cooling gas nozzles 166 are provided on the shell, which are connected with a cooling gas inlet header 165.
  • a cooling gas collecting member 160 is provided in the lower part of a transition zone between the reduction zone 101 and the cooling zone 103.
  • the cooling gas collecting member 160 is shown in figures 3 and 4 in an enlarged scale. It comprises invertedly tapered channels formed in collector arms 181, 182, 183, 184 arranged in a cross shape, each of which forms a cooling gas off-take 170, 171, 172, 173.
  • the lower side of the collector arms 181, 182, 183, 184 opposite to the shaft furnace bottom have suction openings for the cooling gas formed therein.
  • the cross sectional area of the cooling gas off-takes 170, 171, 172, 173 increases beginning from the crossing point towards the exterior side.
  • collector arms 181, 182, 183, 184 are inclined with an angle between 5 and 10° from the horizontal direction in the direction of the shaft furnace shell.
  • the collector arms 182, 183 and 183, 184 and 181, 184 are connected at their outer edge portions to each other, so that all collector arms 181, 182, 183, 184 form a common off-take header.
  • the off-take header is connected with an outlet 164, in which a suction device may be provided.
  • the cooling gas collecting number 160 is further provided with an upper hollow cone 161, which is provided above the collector arms 181, 182, 183, 184 in the center thereof (see fig. 4 ).
  • the upper cone 161 is hollow.
  • a lower cone 162 is provided, which in relation of the flow direction of the burden 115 is positioned behind (beneath) the collector arms 181, 182, 183, 184 in the center thereof.
  • a gas pipe 151 is connected to the hollow interior of the upper cone 161 and is connected to hydrocarbon source which is not shown in the drawing.
  • rotating shafts 180, 185 are provided for breaking and grinding clusters, if present.
  • the burden 115 of iron oxide material is fed through the feed opening 109, into the reduction zone 101.
  • a hot reduction gas of hydrogen and carbon monoxide is blown into the reduction zone 101 through the bustle gas ports 133, 134 in such a way, that it flows in the opposite direction of the burden 115, which flows downwardly under the influence of gravity.
  • the reduction gas reduces the iron oxide at high temperature and in direct contact with the iron.
  • the reacted reduction gas then reaches the shaft furnace top, where it enters the furnace gas outlet 120. Due to the inclination of the furnace gas outlet 120 only a small amount of dust particles reaches the furnace gas main pipe 123, because gravity restrains the dust particles.
  • the reduced burden 115 descends from the reduction zone 101 into the cooling zone 103. On its way it passes the cooling gas collecting member 160, thereby passing between the collector arms 181, 182, 183, 184, which offer a comparatively small resistance. At the same time the burden 115 is loosened by the top cone 161 in the direction of the shaft furnace wall. The top cone 161 is cooled by the gas entering into the interior thereof.
  • a cooling gas is blown in by way of the cooling gas ports 166.
  • the cooling gas streams upwardly against the descending burden 115 thereby cooling the burden 115.
  • hot gas reaches the collector arms 181, 182, 183, 184 and exits through the suction openings thereof into the cooling gas off-takes 171, 172, 173, 174.
  • the cooling gas is then passed to the cooling gas offtake header 164 through the cooling gas off-takes 171, 172, 173, 174 and is thus effectively removed from the shaft furnace 100 at the lower limit of the cooling zone 103. In this way, the cooling gas is effectively prevented from entering into the reduction zone 101.
  • the cooled-off burden 115 finally discharges through the discharge port 190 from the shaft furnace 100.

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Claims (5)

  1. Four à cuve vertical (100), qui est pourvu dans sa partie supérieure avec une ouverture d'alimentation (109) pour une charge (115) en matériau d'oxyde de fer et il est conçu de telle manière, que la charge (115) se meuve sous l'influence de la gravité du haut vers le bas du four à cuve en descente par l'intérieur du four à cuve (100) vers une ouverture de décharge (190), l'intérieur du four à cuve (100) comprenant une zone de réduction (101), et qui comprend un dispositif d'alimentation de gaz de réduction (130), qui comprend un système d'injection (410) et est connecté avec au moins un port d'agitation de gaz (133, 134) dans la zone de réduction (101), caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'alimentation de gaz de réduction (130) est connecté à la zone de réduction (101) avec les deux lignes d'agitation de gaz (131, 132) ayant chacune un port d'agitation de gaz (133, 134), où les ports d'agitation de gaz (133, 134) des deux lignes d'agitation de gaz (131, 132) sont arrangés l'un verticalement au dessus de l'autre dans la zone de réduction (101), et que les deux lignes d'agitation de gaz (131, 132) sont équipées avec un système d'injection (400, 410) pour alimenter un mélange de gaz brûlable dans le gaz de réduction dans les lignes d'agitation de gaz (131, 132), où les deux systèmes d'injection (400, 410) sont chacun connecté avec une source d'hydrocarbure (401, 416) et une source d'oxygène (402) et les systèmes d'injection (400, 410) sont conçus de telle manière, que la quantité d'hydrocarbure et d'oxygène puisse être séparément réglée.
  2. Four à cuve selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le système d'injection (400, 410) comprend un zone de mélange (405) pour mélanger en préalable et brûler en préalable l'hydrocarbure et l'oxygène.
  3. Four à cuve (100) selon l'une quelconque de la revendication antérieure, caractérisé en ce que le système d'injection (400, 410) est contrôlable.
  4. Four à cuve (100) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le système d'injection (400, 410) comprend les deux lignes (403, 404), qui sont connectées à la portion de mélange (405) où une ligne (403) est connectée à la source d'hydrocarbure (401, 415) et une ligne (404) est connectée avec la source d'oxygène (402) et une ligne (403) s'étend au moins partiellement dans l'autre ligne (404).
  5. Four à cuve selon l'une quelconque de la revendication antérieure, caractérisé en ce que les deux systèmes d'injection (400, 410) sont connectés avec différentes sources d'hydrocarbure (401, 415).
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