A system and method deliver fluidized powder based on flue gas carrying waste slag and instant cooling steel slag. A first flue gas pipeline receives pressurized CO.sub.2-rich flue gas and in fluid communication with a fluidization air pipeline, a pressurization air pipeline and a supplementary air pipeline respectively and through them enters an upper discharge bin; a second flue gas pipeline receives the pressurized CO.sub.2-rich flue gas and in fluid communication with a gas-gas mixer, a dense phase discharge guide pipe first end extends into the upper discharge bin and receives high-pressure dense phase gas-powder flow of CO.sub.2-rich flue gas, and a dense phase discharge guide pipe second end is connected to the gas-gas mixer; a variable-pitch twin screw sealed conveyor discharge end extends into an upper discharge bin internal space, and is provided with an upwardly inclined gas-blocking segment.

A method for recycling processing of dust generated in a converter furnace, includes: crushing and drying a cake formed by adding a binder to a slurry containing iron powder-containing dust that is generated at the time of converter blowing and wet-collected to produce a mixed slurry and subjecting the produced mixed slurry to a dehydration treatment in a filter press; accumulating the cake in an accumulation tank; and charging the cake into a converter furnace 10, the crushed product in the accumulation tank 25 is kept at a temperature of less than 90 C. by forcibly passing air into the accumulation tank 25 and charged into a converter furnace according to the converter operation.

The present invention provides a method of simultaneously recycling plastics and detoxifying chromite ore processing residue with residual heat from a steel slag. By heating and gasifying plastics with steel slag, followed by catalytically split-decomposing the plastics with catalysts such as chromite ore processing residue, the plastics are thoroughly converted into a energy gas under water vapor gasification. The surface coking of Chromite Ore Processing Residue is avoided. Meanwhile, the energy gas reduces Cr.sup.6+ in Chromite Ore Processing Residue into Cr.sup.3+, and the energy gas is cooled, and CO.sub.2 and Cl in the energy gas are adsorbed by alkaline substances in Chromite Ore Processing Residue. With this method, chromite ore processing residue is detoxified, and steel slag is cooled, furthermore, energy is saved and a energy gas is obtained.

A method is disclosed for extracting metals from concentrated sulphurated minerals containing metals by direct reduction with regeneration and recycling of the reducing agent, iron, and of the flux, sodium carbonate. It is a combination of pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processes which differ from the conventional processes. They do not require previous toasting of the concentrated sulphurated minerals and are technically and economically more advantageous than the presently used processes, since they directly reduce to zero the positive oxidation state of the metal, using a single reactor for extracting the metal, regenerating and recycling the metallurgical feed materials in complementary processes, the kinetics of the chemical reactions being characterised by high speed, without generating any slags or pollutant gases. The metals can be extracted at a reduced cost and in an environmentally sustainable manner

A method and system for recovering a high yield of low carbon ferroalloy, e.g., low carbon ferrochrome, from chromite and low carbon ferrochrome produced by the method. A stoichiometric mixture of feed materials including scrap aluminum granules, lime, silica sand, and chromite ore are provided into a plasma arc furnace. The scrap aluminum granules are produced from used aluminum beverage containers. The feed materials are heated, whereupon the aluminum in the aluminum granules produces an exothermic reaction reducing the chromium oxide and iron oxide in the chromite to produce molten low carbon ferrochrome with molten slag floating thereon. The molten low carbon ferrochrome is extracted, solidified and granulated into granules of low carbon ferrochrome. The molten slag is extracted, solidified and granulated into granules of slag.

The present invention relates to method and apparatus for treating iron-contained raw material using bath smelting furnace. An iron-contained raw material is mixed with a reducing agent. The mixture is added into a bath smelting furnace. The enriched oxygen is blown into the bath. The smelt is conducted at a temperature of 1200-1600 C. Compared with the traditional process of sintering/pellet-blast furnace smelting or rotary furnace reduction-electrical furnace smelting separation, the present invention has the remarkable advantages of short process, strong raw material adaptability, high product quality, low energy consumption, low pollution, etc. The present invention provides a new technology direction for effectively and comprehensively utilizing the iron-contained resource and has a wide application prospect.

The present invention relates to a system and a process for dry recovery of iron oxide fines from iron bearing compact and semicompact rocks that comprise primary (5), secondary (6) and tertiary (7, 7) crushing means for preliminarily reducing the granulometry of ores containing the iron oxide fines in compact and semicompact rocks; means for finely grinding (10, 10, 21) iron oxide minerals reduced through primary (5), secondary (6) and tertiary (7, 7) crushing, provided with a dynamic air classifier (3.5, 4.6, 5.4); means of static air classification (11, 12, 13) arranged in series for intermediate granulometric cuts and bag filters (14) for retaining fine fraction; and means of magnetic separation (15, 16, 17), through magnetic rolls (71, 72, 73) arranged in cascade at a variable leaning angle, and formed by high and/or low magnetic intensity magnets,

A facility for producing reduced iron includes: a granulation apparatus that granulates raw material fine powder that contains iron and has a median diameter of 50 m or less into granular powder in a fluidized bed formed by fluidizing medium particles that do not thermally decompose during fluidization; and a reduction apparatus that reduces at least the granular powder in the fluidized bed formed by fluidizing the granular powder.

A method for producing a high purity high carbon molten chrome product from chrome and carbon bearing material, said method comprising the steps of: (a) continuously introducing chrome compacts directly into an electric melter; (b) heating and melting the chrome compacts in the electric melter at a temperature of between about 1300 C. to about 1700 C. to form high carbon molten chrome; (c) preventing oxidation of the high carbon molten chrome via minimization of the ingress of oxygen containing gas in said heating step; (d) carburizing the high carbon molten chrome to form high carbon molten metallized chrome; (e) purifying the high carbon molten metallized chrome by reducing silicon oxides to silicon and desulfurizing the high carbon molten metallized chrome to produce the high purity high carbon molten chrome product; and (f) discharging the high purity high carbon molten chrome product from the electric melter.

Reduction reactor and process of effecting reduction of iron ore material to reduced iron material. The process includes feeding iron ore material into a reduction reactor at a top portion thereof, creating a gravitational flow of the material in the reduction reactor from the top portion, axially downwards towards a bottom portion of the reduction reactor; feeding a heated reduction gas into the reduction reactor at the top portion of the reduction reactor, such that the reduction gas creates a co-current flow with the gravitational flow of the material in the reduction reactor; and by means of the reduction gas reducing the iron ore material to reduced iron material in the reduction reactor.