Rotary hearth furnace exhaust gas duct apparatus and method for operating same

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PATENT NO 9310133
APP PUB NO 20130154167A1
SERIAL NO

13820174

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An exhaust gas duct apparatus for use in a rotary-hearth furnace for heating a starting material including a carbonaceous reducing material and an iron-oxide containing material to produce reduced iron or granular metallic iron. In an exhaust gas duct for use in the rotary-hearth furnace, a cooling part for cooling an exhaust gas discharged from the rotary-hearth furnace to solidify a metal salt in the exhaust gas, a collision part for allowing the exhaust gas just after being cooled to collide therewith to drop down the metal salt solidified, and a direction change duct for guiding the exhaust gas after being collided, in a direction other than a direction of dropping the metal salt, are arranged in this order in two stages.

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KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL LTD )HYOGO 651-8585

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Mizutani, Noriaki Kobe, JP 8 88
Tokuda, Koji Kobe, JP 37 324
Tsuge, Osamu Kobe, JP 27 183

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