Method for treating material formed/found at the bottom of a ladle furnace is provided. The material includes white slag containing lime or lime-based compounds and also includes a metal alloy in the molten or semi-molten/viscous state. The material at the outlet of the ladle furnace cools for a period of time less than about 30-45 minutes.

A roller treatment process and a treatment device suitable for a total-amount steel slag treatment. The treatment process is: firstly, a slag tank (2) with the molten slag is tightly held by a slag tank tilting mechanism and moved to a slag inlet position, the slag tank (2) is tilted to pour the molten slag with good fluidity into a rotary roller device (5) through a feeding chute (51), so that a roller treatment is achieved; secondly, when the steel slag (3) without fluidity in the slag tank (2) cannot flow out, a slag removal machine (4) is used for pushing the high-viscosity slag or the solid slag into the roller device (5); and thirdly, the slag tank (2) is reversed by a large angle tilting to make the slag at the bottom of the tank drop into the roller device (5), so that the total-amount steel slag treatment of the same roller device (5) is achieved. The treatment device comprises a feeding system, the roller device (5), a particle slag conveying and storage system (7), a tail gas emission and purification system (6), a cooling water circulation system (8), a cold steel cleaning mechanism (10) and an electric control system (9); and the feeding system comprises the slag tank tilting mechanism (1), the slag tank (2), the molten slag (3) and the slag removal machine (4).

A method and system is used to process slag material to yield by-products including a finished iron rich product and a finished low iron fines product. The by-products may include a finished high iron product and a finished medium iron product. The method and system include size classifying the material into a plurality of sized groups prior to using magnetic separation to separate at least one of the sized groups into two portions having differing magnetic susceptibilities. The method and system may include more than one phase of size classifying the material into a plurality of sized groups and using magnetic separation to separate at least one of the sized groups into portions, where the average size of the material remaining after one phase is reduced prior to the subsequent phase.

A roller treatment process and a treatment device suitable for a total-amount steel slag treatment. The treatment process is: firstly, a slag tank (2) with the molten slag is tightly held by a slag tank tilting mechanism and moved to a slag inlet position, the slag tank (2) is tilted to pour the molten slag with good fluidity into a rotary roller device (5) through a feeding chute (51), so that a roller treatment is achieved; secondly, when the steel slag (3) without fluidity in the slag tank (2) cannot flow out, a slag removal machine (4) is used for pushing the high-viscosity slag or the solid slag into the roller device (5); and thirdly, the slag tank (2) is reversed by a large angle tilting to make the slag at the bottom of the tank drop into the roller device (5), so that the total-amount steel slag treatment of the same roller device (5) is achieved. The treatment device comprises a feeding system, the roller device (5), a particle slag conveying and storage system (7), a tail gas emission and purification system (6), a cooling water circulation system (8), a cold steel cleaning mechanism (10) and an electric control system (9); and the feeding system comprises the slag tank tilting mechanism (1), the slag tank (2), the molten slag (3) and the slag removal machine (4).

A hearth for a traveling hearth furnace for the production of pig iron grade nuggets, the hearth having a synthetic graphite material in direct contact with the process charge in producing a plurality of metallic iron nodules and slag. The process charge including iron containing oxide, a predetermined amount of a reductant and flux, which are carried into and through a reducing, melting and coalescing stages on the hearth, wherein resulting metallic iron nodules and slag are in direct contact with the synthetic graphite material and do not adhere to the synthetic graphite material of the hearth. The absence adherence and ease of removal minimizes any impurities in the pig iron grade nuggets and allows the hearth to be used more than one cycle without the need for any replenishment of the contact surface.

An apparatus for cooling a material includes: at least one reactor, substantially tubular, which is rotatable and which includes a rotating tubular structure defining inside it a chamber for receiving and passing through the material to be cooled; and means for indirectly cooling the material passing through said chamber by means of a cooling fluid, the means for indirect cooling comprise at least one dispensing device for the cooling fluid. The at least one dispensing device includes at least two dispensing mouths defined by respective slots, with substantially longitudinal development, for the escape of the refrigerant fluid, the device being arranged with respect to the tubular structure in so that the flow outgoing from said two slits affects and laps two respective areas, distinct from each other, of the external surface of the tubular structure.

An industrial installation for recovering waste radiative heat from steel slag includes: a pit in which molten steel slag is discharged and from which solidified steel slag is removed, using a slag conveying machine or vehicle; an evaporating device for producing hot water and steam and auxiliary equipment, the evaporating device including a heat exchanger having tube-cooled walls; a steel structure supporting the evaporating device; and a lifting system including jacks, such that the heat exchanger is movable vertically from an upper standby position to a lower working position and vice versa. The tube-cooled walls are made of a metal, allowing the heat exchanger to work in an environment presenting sharp temperature gradients and corrosion.

The liquid steel slag (2) is poured in at least four successive layers (6-8), comprising a lowermost layer (6), an uppermost layer (7) and at least two intermediate layers (8), in a reservoir (3) and the layers of liquid steel slag are allowed to solidify. After having applied the uppermost layer (7), the solidified steel slag is cooled down more quickly by means of water. The average temperature of each of the intermediate layers (8) is kept at least until the start of the water cooling step, and this for at least one hour, above a minimum temperature which is equal to or higher than the temperature at which -dicalcium silicate is formed. In this way, more crystalline phases different from dicalcium silicates are formed so that the formation of fines by the transition of into -dicalcium silicates can be considerably reduced. A glassy material and/or a phosphorus containing compound is preferably added to the liquid slag to further reduce the formation of fines.

A method and system is used to process slag material to yield by-products including a finished iron rich product and a finished low iron fines product. The by-products may include a finished high iron product and a finished medium iron product. The method and system include size classifying the material into a plurality of sized groups prior to using magnetic separation to separate at least one of the sized groups into two portions having differing magnetic susceptibilities. The method and system may include more than one phase of size classifying the material into a plurality of sized groups and using magnetic separation to separate at least one of the sized groups into portions, where the average size of the material remaining after one phase is reduced prior to the subsequent phase.

A method and system is used to process slag material to yield by-products including a finished iron rich product and a finished low iron fines product. The by-products may include a finished high iron product and a finished medium iron product. The method and system include size classifying the material into a plurality of sized groups prior to using magnetic separation to separate at least one of the sized groups into two portions having differing magnetic susceptibilities. The method and system may include more than one phase of size classifying the material into a plurality of sized groups and using magnetic separation to separate at least one of the sized groups into portions, where the average size of the material remaining after one phase is reduced prior to the subsequent phase.