IP Library Granted Patent US 9,238,846
Granted Patent B2
US 9,238,846 · App. 14/353,961 · Granted Jan 19, 2016

Reduction processing apparatus for steel-making slag and reduction processing system for steel-making slag

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Patent No.
US 9,238,846
App. No.
14/353,961
Granted
Jan 19, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

This reduction processing apparatus for a steel-making slag that continuously performs reduction processing to a hot steel-making slag by using an electric furnace includes: a slag-supplying container that charges the hot steel-making slag into the electric furnace; an electrode that is provided at the electric furnace and heats a molten slag layer on a molten iron produced by reducing the hot steel-making slag; an auxiliary-raw-material supplying unit that supplies an auxiliary-raw-material including a reducing agent to the molten slag layer; and a tilting unit that tilts the slag-supplying container and adjusts a charging amount of the hot steel-making slag to the electric furnace.

Claims (13)

1. A reduction processing apparatus for a steel-making slag that continuously performs reduction processing to a hot steel-making slag by using an electric furnace, the apparatus comprising:

a slag-supplying container configured to charge the hot steel-making slag having fluidity into the electric furnace the hot-steel making slag having a rate of solid phase of not more than 30% if a temperature of the hot steel-making slag is 1400° C.;

an electrode that is provided at the electric furnace and heats a molten slag layer on a molten iron produced by reducing the hot steel-making slag together with the molten iron;

an auxiliary-raw-material supplying unit that supplies an auxiliary-raw-material including a reducing agent to the molten slag layer; and

a tilting unit that tilts the slag-supplying container with a tilting axis being a center, and adjusts a charging amount of the hot steel-making slag to the electric furnace,

wherein the electric furnace is a closed and fixed electric furnace.

2. The reduction processing apparatus for a steel-making slag according to claim 1 , wherein the closed and fixed electric furnace is a direct-current electric furnace.

3. The reduction processing apparatus for a steel-making slag according to claim 1 , wherein the auxiliary-raw-material supplying unit is an auxiliary-raw-material supplying tube which is provided in the electrode.

4. The reduction processing apparatus for a steel-making slag according to claim 1 , wherein the slag-supplying container is provided with an exhausting portion that discharges exhaust gas from the electric furnace.

5. A reduction processing system for a steel-making slag by using the reduction processing apparatus according to claim 1 , the system comprising:

a measuring unit that measures electric power supplied to the electrode;

a calculation unit that calculates an amount of the hot steel-making slag to be reduced based on the measured electric power, and then calculates a predetermined amount of reducing agent based on the calculated amount of the hot steel-making slag to be reduced; and

a control unit that controls a tilting angle of the slag-supplying container by actuating the tilting unit such that an amount of the hot steel-making slag charged into the electric furnace follows the amount of the hot steel-making slag to be reduced, and controls an amount of the auxiliary-raw-material supplied from the auxiliary-raw-material supplying unit so as to supply the predetermined amount of the reducing agent.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 14, 2019
From: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
To: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049257/0828 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 25, 2014
From: HARADA, TOSHIYA; ARAI, TAKASHI; FUKUMURA, HIROKI
To: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032761/0806 →