A hot metal temperature prediction method includes a reaction amount calculation step (S1) of calculating a reaction amount inside a blast furnace using a physical model that takes into account reactions and heat transfer phenomena inside the blast furnace, a deviation calculation step (S2) of calculating a deviation between the reaction amount calculated using the physical model and a measured reaction amount, a model parameter adjustment step (S3) of adjusting a parameter of the physical model that causes drift in a gas inside the blast furnace, so that the calculated deviation is reduced, and a hot metal temperature prediction step (S4) of predicting a future hot metal temperature using the physical model for which the parameter was adjusted.

A method is disclosed for generating slag having desired characteristics.

A supply heat quantity estimating method includes: estimating a change in carried-out sensible heat by in-furnace passing gas and a change in carried-in sensible heat supplied by a raw material preheated by the in-furnace passing gas, and estimating a quantity of heat supplied to the pig iron in a blast furnace in consideration of the estimated changes in the carried-out sensible heat and carried-in sensible heat. The estimating includes: estimating the carried-out sensible heat in consideration of the quantity of heat released to an outside, and estimating the change in the carried-in sensible heat in consideration of a change in a surface height of the raw material; and estimating a quantity of heat held in a deadman coke, and estimating the quantity of heat supplied to the pig iron in the blast furnace in consideration of the estimated quantity of heat held in the deadman coke.

A method for predicting an impurity concentration of molten iron after refining of molten iron to be refined in an electric arc furnace facility includes inputting, into an impurity concentration prediction model, an amount of individual ferrous scrap material charged, the ferrous scrap material being classified by type, and at least one of the impurity concentration of molten iron in a preceding charge, an amount of residual molten iron in the preceding charge, and market transaction price information of an impurity; and outputting the impurity concentration of the molten iron in a subsequent charge.

A blast furnace operation method according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a process of acquiring a correlation between a carbon consumption in reducing gas and a reduction InputC in specific carbon consumption caused by blowing the reducing gas into the blast furnace per molar ratio C/H of carbon atoms to hydrogen atoms in the reducing gas; a process of determining a carbon consumption in the reducing gas where the reduction InputC in specific carbon consumption is a predetermined target value or higher on the basis of the correlation acquired per C/H; and a process of adjusting the amount of the reducing gas blown into the blast furnace on the basis of the determined carbon consumption in the reducing gas and the carbon proportion in the reducing gas.

A fine ratio measuring method and apparatus. The fine ratio measuring method includes a step S1 of measuring a distance between a distance measuring device and lumps of material, a step S2 of calculating a feature quantity from distance data obtained in the step S1, and a step S3 of converting the feature quantity calculated in step S2 to a fine ratio. The feature quantity calculated in step S2 represents distance variation calculated from the distance data obtained in the step S1. A higher fine ratio in lumps of material means greater microscopic distance variation caused by microscopic irregularities in the surface of the lumps of material in the height direction within a three-dimensional shape. Therefore, by using the distance variation as the feature quantity, the fine ratio in the lumps of material can be measured in real time with high accuracy.

A method for controlling stability of gas flow at the periphery of a blast furnace, including the following steps: constructing a database; and selecting blast furnace operating parameters satisfying a first preset condition from the database to generate an instruction for setting the blast furnace operating parameters for a next operating stage. The first preset condition includes: PD<a preset value PD0, and the blast furnace operation parameters corresponding to a minimum value of PU are selected when the condition is satisfied.

An estimation method of the depositional shape of a charged material inside a blast furnace formed after coke inside the blast furnace is consumed by using a burner when the blast furnace is caused to start up. The estimation method includes estimating the depositional shape of a charged material inside a blast furnace in a blowing down with lowering stock level, estimating a charged region of coke inside the blast furnace from the estimated depositional shape of the charged material inside the blast furnace and from the shape of a solidified layer on a bottom part inside the blast furnace, estimating an amount of coke inside the blast furnace that is consumed by using the burner, and estimating, from the estimated amount of the coke inside the blast furnace, the depositional shape of a charged material inside the blast furnace formed after consumption of the coke inside the blast furnace.

A cold iron source melting ratio estimation device that estimates a melting ratio of a cold iron source charged into a converter-type refining furnace during refining of molten iron in the converter-type refining furnace. The device includes: an input section to which measured values of in-furnace information or estimated values of the in-furnace information is input, the in-furnace information including a molten iron temperature and a carbon concentration in the molten iron during refining; a database section that stores a model equation and parameters related to a refining reaction of the molten iron in the converter-type refining furnace; a computation section that computes the melting ratio of the cold iron source using the measured values or the estimated values input to the input section; and an output section that displays the melting ratio of the cold iron source computed by the computation section.

The present invention relates to reduction of a metal oxide material (5) and to a metal material production configuration (1) adapted for reduction of a metal oxide material (5) holding thermal energy into a reduced metal material (16).

The metal oxide material (5) is charged into an upper interior portion (UP) of a reduction facility (7). A hydrogen containing reducing agent (6) is introduced into the reduction facility (7) and is adapted to react with the metal oxide material (5) holding thermal energy for reducing the metal oxide material (5) by utilizing the thermal energy of the metal oxide material (5) to heat or further heat the introduced hydrogen containing reducing agent (6).

The reduction facility (7) of the metal material production configuration (1) is configured for providing a heat treatment process of the reduced metal material (16).

A control circuitry (50) is configured to adjust the temperature of the hydrogen containing reducing agent (6) and control the temperature of the introduced hydrogen containing reducing agent (6) for reaching at least one desired passivation parameter value (DPPV) of the reduced metal material (16).