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Gasification of solid carbonaceous materials

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6435708
The gasification of solid carbonaceous materials such as coal is achieved by directing a stream containing the carbonaceous materials onto a high temperature hot spot which has been formed on the surface of a bath of molten iron by oxygen jets blown thereagainst, the stream containing the carbonaceous materials emanating from a non-submerged, top-blowing lance, the oxygen jets emanating from the same lance or from different lances, and the bath of molten iron being contained in a reactor such that its total volume remains essentially constant.
Assignee:
Sumitomo Metal Industries Limited (Japan)
Patent Number(s):
US 4459137
OSTI ID:
6435708
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English