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.

The present invention relates to a method and system for recovering carbonate from steel slag, in which it is possible to extract carbonate from steel slag and reuse the extracted carbonate, and to recycle steel slag and make use of CO.sub.2 gas without emission to the atmosphere. Since unreacted metal ions and an acidic solvent are reused in the method and system, it is possible to increase carbonate extraction efficiency and reduce an amount of waste.

Disclosed are methods useful in applications relating to blast furnace processes. The methods of the present invention provide enhanced deposition inhibition of particulate matter in top-pressure recovery turbines. The methods of the present invention comprise adding nitrogen-containing compounds to a top-pressure recovery turbine, inhibiting deposition of solids formed from blast furnace gas on top-pressure recovery turbine components.

A method for producing iron containing products includes: operating a blast furnace plant to produce liquid pig iron from blast furnace charge material, whereby metallurgical gas having blast furnace top gas is generated; operating a direct reduction plant to produce direct reduced iron products from iron ore loaded into the top of a direct reduction furnace, a stream of reducing gas being introduced into the direct reduction furnace, the direct reduction plant including a reformer or heater device from which the stream of reducing gas is discharged, whereby top gas is generated by the direct reduction furnace; where a first stream of direct reduction plant top gas is treated in an enriching stage configured for enriching in reducing species, and forwarded to the blast furnace plant to be used therein as reducing gas; and where a first stream of the metallurgical gas (B3/B6) is forwarded to the reformer or heater device of the direct reduction plant to be used therein as fuel gas. Also disclosed is a corresponding metallurgical plant.

A method and apparatus for producing direct reduced iron (DRI), including: generating a reducing gas in a coal gasifier using coal, oxygen, steam, and a first coke oven gas (COG) stream as inputs to the coal gasifier; and delivering the reducing gas to a shaft furnace and exposing iron ore agglomerates to the reducing gas to form metallic iron agglomerates. The method further includes delivering a second COG stream directly to the shaft furnace.

A method for operating a blast furnace plant having a blast furnace and an ammonia reforming plant, the method including the steps of feeding a stream of ammonia to the ammonia reforming plant, cracking the stream of ammonia in the ammonia reforming plant to produce a reducing gas, feeding an iron oxide containing charge and the reducing gas into the blast furnace, and reducing iron oxide inside the blast furnace by reaction between the iron oxide containing charge and the reducing gas, where the reducing gas comprises less than 15% of ammonia.

A Steel manufacturing method including the step of producing direct reduced iron (12) and a reduction top gas (13) in a direct reduction plant (1) using a reducing gas (11), the reduction top (13) being at least partly (13A) recycled as reducing gas (11), producing hot metal and a blast furnace top gas (21) in a blast furnace (2), wherein from 200 Nm3 to 700 Nm3 of hydrogen (20) per ton of hot metal to be produced are injected and the blast furnace top gas (21A) being at least partly sent to a biochemical plant (4) to produce hydrocarbons and producing molten metal and electric furnace gas in an electric furnace (3) using at least a part of the produced direct reduced iron (12).

A steel manufacturing method includes the steps of producing direct reduced iron in a direct reduction plant (1) using a syngas (70) resulting from the gasification of solid waste fuels, producing hot metal (22) and a blast furnace top gas (21) in a blast furnace (2) using a hot blast (20), the blast furnace top gas (21) being at least partly (21A) used into the direct reduction plant (1) and producing molten metal and electric furnace gas in an electric furnace (3) using the produced direct reduced iron (12). Associated network of plants.

Methods and systems for the valorization of carbon monoxide emissions from metallurgical furnaces into highly valuable low-carbon footprint chemicals using carbon monoxide electrolysis are disclosed herein are disclosed. A disclosed method includes operating a metallurgical furnace; obtaining, in connection with the operation of the metallurgical furnace, a volume of carbon monoxide; supplying the volume of carbon monoxide to a cathode area of a carbon monoxide electrolyzer to be used as a reduction substrate; and generating, using the carbon monoxide electrolyzer, the reduction substrate, and an oxidation substrate, a volume of generated chemicals. The volume of generated chemicals is at least one of: a volume of hydrocarbons, a volume of organic acids, a volume of alcohol, a volume of olefins and a volume of N-rich organic compounds.

The invention relates to a method for operating a steelworks, for example in a blast furnace converter route, or with a direct reduction of iron ore with hydrogen with downstream electrical steel route, preferably additionally a secondary steel route. To carry out the method, the following are balanced: A) a number of starting material flows of supplied starting materials, B) a number of by-product material flows from emitted by-products, and C) a number of energy flows of used energy.