A system for reducing ore includes a hydrogen supply unit configured to supply hydrogen, a furnace configured to reduce the ore using the supplied hydrogen, and a hydrogen recovery unit configured to recover hydrogen from an exhaust gas that is exhausted from the furnace.

A method of constructing a shaft furnace is provided, as well as an assembly and a fixation structure therefor. The method comprises the steps of providing on a first position a furnace segment comprising a ring wall extending along a central axis, and transporting the segment to a second position and operably attaching the segment there to one or more further blast furnace portions. The method further comprises that during said transporting the segment to the second position the segment comprises at least one fixation structure comprising a plurality of tensioned tensile members attached to the wall determining a shape of the segment.

A method of constructing a shaft furnace is provided, as well as an assembly and a fixation structure therefor. The method comprises the steps of providing on a first position a furnace segment comprising a ring wall extending along a central axis, and transporting the segment to a second position and operably attaching the segment there to one or more further blast furnace portions. The method further comprises that during said transporting the segment to the second position the segment comprises at least one fixation structure comprising a plurality of tensioned tensile members attached to the wall determining a shape of the segment.

A BF iron-ore reduction process for the production of iron and/or iron-carbon compounds with low environmental impact is described, in which a synthesis gas produced from a hydrocarbon stream with a short contact time-catalytic partial oxidation (SCT-CPO) process integrated with the iron-ore reduction process is also used in the BF.

The present disclosure relates to a method for producing steel in an integrated metallurgical plant comprising at least one direct reduction reactor for directly reducing iron ore to give sponge iron, at least one electric furnace for melting the sponge iron to give pig iron or crude steel, at least one blast furnace for smelting iron ore to give pig iron, and at least one converter for refining pig iron to give crude steel. In accordance with the invention, the process gas discharged from the direct reduction reactor is admixed at least partly to the hot blast air and/or at least partly to an optional charging material, said air and/or said material being blown into the blast furnace.

A method of operating a network of plants comprising a blast furnace, a direct reduction furnace, a CO2 conversion unit wherein blast furnace top gas is subjected to a CO2 conversion step to produce a liquid carbon product which is injected into the direct reduction furnace.

Provided is a device for producing partially reduced iron, with which partially reduced iron having a prescribed reduction ratio can be produced efficiently. The present invention is equipped with: CO sensors that detect the carbon monoxide concentration in an exhaust gas; an O.sub.2 sensor that detects the oxygen concentration in an exhaust gas; an exhaust gas circulation device that adjusts the circulating amount of the exhaust gas supplied to a reduction furnace main body, and an air feed device that adjusts the amount of air that being fed; and a control device that controls these devices. The control devices on the basis of the carbon monoxide concentration in the exhaust gas as detected by the CO sensor and the oxygen concentration in the exhaust gas as detected by the O.sub.2 sensor.

A gas scrubber cone condition monitoring system has a sealed gas scrubber cone (9) moveably mounted in a gas pipe (1), a collar (5) fixedly mounted radially outward of the cone in the gas pipe and a pressure tap (12) into the sealed cone. The pressure tap is coupled to a condition monitor (17, 18) via an input line (16). An output line (14) from the condition monitor is coupled to a gas pipe (15), downstream of the sealed cone. The condition monitor includes at least one of a pressure gauge and a gas flow meter.

A process and a device for treating a flow of furnace gas with a pressure of more than 1 bar flowing through a channel. A powder agent, such as a powder comprising alkali reagents, such as lime, and/or absorbents, such as activated coal, is injected under an overpressure into the furnace gas flow via an injector which is positioned centrally within the channel The powder agent may be fluidized. The pressure for injecting the powder may be adjusted by controlling the volume of fluidization gas vented via a venting outlet.

A method and recovering method of recovering zinc oxides and other metal oxides having an injection chamber where a mixture of natural gas and oxygen is formed and then ignited to form high temperature combustion gases of greater than 2000 C. with a high concentration of carbon monoxide. Then, the mixture is transported through a quiescent chamber to a feed chamber where the ignited high temperature combustion gases are mixed with finely divided material, including EAF dust. The mixture is transported to a reaction chamber, wherein zinc vapor and other metal vapors and molten slag particles are formed. The zinc vapor and other metal vapors are separated from the molten slag particles and transported to an insulated plenum. Zinc vapor and other metal vapors are mixed with air and become airborne zinc oxide and other metal oxides. The airborne zinc oxide and other metal oxides are collected.