Accelerated decarburization of Fe-C metal alloys

Patent · Tue Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:870967

Pal, Uday B ^[1]; Sadoway, Donald R ^[2]

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1. Needham, MA
2. Belmont, MA

A process for improving the rate of metal production and FeO utilization in a steelmaking process or a process combining iron-making and steelmaking in a single reactor that uses or generates Fe-C metal alloy droplets submerged in an FeO-containing slag. The process involves discharging a charge build-up (electron accumulation) in the slag at the slag-metal alloy interface by means of an electron conductor connected between the metal alloy droplets and a gas at a gas-slag interface, said gas having an oxygen partial pressure of at least about 0.01 atmosphere.

• Research Organization: American Iron and Steel Inst., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FC07-89ID12847
• Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
• Patent Number(s): US 5632800
• OSTI ID: 870967
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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