Direct smelting process and apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9175907
APP PUB NO 20120067171A1
SERIAL NO

13148576

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A process and apparatus for direct smelting metalliferous material is disclosed. The invention concentrates injection of solid feed materials comprising metalliferous material and carbonaceous material into a direct smelting vessel during the course of the process into a relatively small region within a metal layer in a molten bath in the vessel in order to generate a substantial upward movement of molten material and gas from the metal layer into a region in the vessel that is above the molten bath. In particular, the invention injects the solid feed materials with sufficient momentum and/or velocity via an opposed pair of lances that are oriented within the vessel and arranged to form overlapping plumes of injected material in the molten bath.

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TATA STEEL LIMITEDJAMSHEDPUR JHARKHAND 831001

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dry, Rodney James City Beach, AU 49 397
Pilote, Jacques Woodlands, AU 17 27

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