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Title: System and method for producing metallic iron

Abstract

A method of production of metallic iron nodules comprises assembling a hearth furnace having a moveable hearth comprising refractory material and having a conversion zone and a fusion zone, providing a hearth material layer comprising carbonaceous material on the refractory material, providing a layer of reducible material comprising and iron bearing material arranged in discrete portions over at least a portion of the hearth material layer, delivering oxygen gas into the hearth furnace to a ratio of at least 0.8:1 ponds of oxygen to pounds of iron in the reducible material to heat the conversion zone to a temperature sufficient to at least partially reduce the reducible material and to heat the fusion zone to a temperature sufficient to at least partially reduce the reducible material, and heating the reducible material to form one or more metallic iron nodules and slag.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Nu-Iron Technology LLC, Charlotte, NC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1149932
Patent Number(s):
8790442
Application Number:
13/499,152
Assignee:
Nu-Iron Technology, LLC (Charlotte, NC)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
C - CHEMISTRY C21 - METALLURGY OF IRON C21B - MANUFACTURE OF IRON OR STEEL
Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
DOE Contract Number:  
FG36-05GO15185
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Englund, David J., Schlichting, Mark, Meehan, John, Crouch, Jeremiah, and Wilson, Logan. System and method for producing metallic iron. United States: N. p., 2014. Web.
Englund, David J., Schlichting, Mark, Meehan, John, Crouch, Jeremiah, & Wilson, Logan. System and method for producing metallic iron. United States.
Englund, David J., Schlichting, Mark, Meehan, John, Crouch, Jeremiah, and Wilson, Logan. Tue . "System and method for producing metallic iron". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1149932.
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