JP2013185180A - Method of blowing reducing gas from blast furnace tuyere and blowing lance - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of blowing a reducing gas from a blast furnace tuyere, which allows the reducing gas to enter a blast furnace while keeping reducibility of the reducing gas, and to provide a blowing lance.SOLUTION: A method of blowing a reducing gas from a blast furnace tuyere is for blowing the reducing gas from the blast furnace tuyere using a triple ring lance. In the method, the reducing gas is blown from a center part pipe 1, nitrogen is blown from an intermediate part pipe 2, and oxygen-enriched air is blown from an outer peripheral part pipe 3 further on the outer side thereof. Further, pulverized coal is blown from a pulverized coal blowing nozzle which is merged with the outer peripheral part pipe 3 of the triple ring lance.

Description

  The present invention relates to a reducing gas blowing method and a blowing lance from a blast furnace tuyere.

  Conventionally, coke is mainly used as fuel in blast furnaces at steelworks, but the amount of pulverized coal (hereinafter referred to as “PC”) used in response to the depletion of highly caking coal that is the raw material of coke. Has increased. The PC blowing method into the blast furnace is generally a method in which a PC blowing pipe is inserted into a blow pipe that is a hot air blowing pipe into the blast furnace, blown into the blast furnace tuyere, and PC is burned in the raceway before the tuyere.

On the other hand, in recent years, from the viewpoint of protecting the global environment, the need for reducing carbon dioxide emissions has increased, and measures for reducing carbon dioxide in blast furnaces have been studied. The coke and PC burned in the blast furnace burns carbon, which is the main component, becomes carbon monoxide in the raceway in front of the tuyere, reduces iron ore as it rises in the blast furnace, and becomes carbon dioxide It is discharged from the top.
Here, coke oven gas containing a large amount of hydrogen and methane (hereinafter referred to as COG), natural gas (hereinafter referred to as LNG), or COG is modified instead of coke and PC mainly composed of carbon. By blowing quality hydrogen gas or the like into the blast furnace, reduction of carbon dioxide discharged from the blast furnace can be expected.

Conventionally, as a technique for blowing PC, LNG, and the like into a metallurgical furnace in an ironworks, there are an upper blowing and a bottom blowing lance of a converter (Patent Document 1).
The top blowing lance in the converter blows oxygen, PC, LNG, etc. from the multi-ring lance to the surface of the molten metal in the converter, and the bottom blowing lance sends oxygen, PC, LNG, etc. from the multi-ring lance in the converter. Is blown into the molten metal.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 6-213577

The oxygen, PC, LNG, and the like blown in the converter are intended to refine the pig iron into steel by burning the carbon in the molten metal simultaneously with the heat generated by the combustion.
On the other hand, COG, LNG, or hydrogen gas blowing into the blast furnace, which is the subject of the present invention, is a method of inserting a reducing gas blowing pipe into a blow pipe that is a hot air blowing pipe into the blast furnace, and a narrow tuyere, The purpose is to blow COG, LNG, hydrogen gas or the like into the furnace as a reducing gas through the raceway. Therefore, COG, LNG, or hydrogen gas blowing into the blast furnace is different from the blowing of oxygen, PC, LNG, and the like in the converter in the fields of industrial use and the problems to be solved are also different.

When reducing gas such as COG, LNG, or hydrogen gas is blown into the blast furnace, a method of inserting the reducing gas blowing pipe into the blow pipe that is a hot air blowing pipe into the blast furnace and blowing it into the furnace through the blast furnace tuyere is considered. It is done. When the reducing gas comes into contact with oxygen in the blown air, the gas burns and is oxidized to CO ₂ or H ₂ O and loses reducing properties. The hydrocarbon-based gas is expected to remain in the partial combustion from the tuyere to the CO and H _{2 in the} raceway, and to maintain the reducing ability to reduce iron oxide in the blast furnace furnace. Therefore, avoiding the contact between the reducing gas blown in and oxygen in the blown air as much as possible, the gas is not burned as much as possible, and it is possible to pass through the raceway and enter the blast furnace furnace while maintaining reducing properties. A structure is desirable.
In addition, when reducing gas such as CH ₄ or H ₂ is blown together with PC from the blast furnace tuyere, if it comes into contact with reducing gas or oxygen in the blown air, a gas-gas reaction occurs, and therefore combustion precedes pulverized coal. As a result, the gas is oxidized to CO ₂ or H ₂ O and loses reducibility. On the other hand, pulverized coal undergoes a phenomenon such that oxygen is taken by the gas, combustion becomes insufficient, and unburned char remains. Therefore, avoid contact between the reducing gas blown in and the oxygen being blown as much as possible. The oxygen in the blowing gives priority to the combustion with pulverized coal, and the reducing gas kept reducing without burning. A lance structure that can enter the blast furnace through the raceway is desirable.
An object of the present invention is to provide a reducing gas blowing method and a blowing lance from a blast furnace tuyere that allow the reducing gas to enter the blast furnace furnace while maintaining the reducing property.

  The inventor blows reducing gas from the center of the lance and blows nitrogen from the outside thereof, thereby suppressing the preceding combustion of the reducing gas and blowing the reducing gas into the blast furnace while maintaining the reducing property. I found out that I can. The present invention has been made to solve the above problems based on this finding, and the gist of the present invention is as follows.

(1) A method of injecting reducing gas from a blast furnace tuyere using a triple ring lance,
A reducing gas blowing method from a blast furnace tuyere, wherein reducing gas is blown from a central pipe, nitrogen is blown from an intermediate pipe, and oxygen-enriched air is blown from an outer peripheral pipe.
(2) The method of blowing reducing gas from a blast furnace tuyere according to (1), characterized in that pulverized coal is blown from a single pulverized coal blowing single pipe that joins the outer peripheral pipe of the triple ring lance.
(3) A triple ring lance for blowing reducing gas from the blast furnace tuyere,
A reducing gas blowing lance from a blast furnace tuyere, wherein reducing gas is blown from a central pipe, nitrogen is blown from an intermediate pipe, and oxygen-enriched air is blown from an outer peripheral pipe.
(4) The reducing gas blowing lance from the blast furnace tuyere according to (3), wherein a pulverized coal blowing nozzle is joined into an outer peripheral pipe of the reducing gas blowing lance.

  The present invention can provide a reducing gas blowing method and a blowing lance from a blast furnace tuyere that allow the reducing gas to enter the blast furnace furnace while maintaining the reducing property.

The figure which shows the triple ring lance of reducing gas blowing. The figure which shows the triple ring lance of pulverized coal and reducing gas blowing. The figure which shows a raceway simulation combustion experiment apparatus. The figure which shows arrangement | positioning of the thermometer of a raceway simulation combustion experiment apparatus. (A) is a side view and (B) is a plan view. The figure which shows the raceway temperature at the time of blowing in reducing gas. The figure which shows the raceway temperature at the time of pulverized coal and reducing gas blowing. The figure which shows the residual amount in the furnace core of unburned char at the time of pulverized coal and reducing gas blowing.

[First embodiment]
In this embodiment, reducing gas is blown from a blast furnace tuyere using a triple ring lance. Reducing gas is blown from the center, nitrogen is blown from the middle, and oxygen-enriched air is blown from the outside (outer periphery). Examples of the reducing gas include COG, LNG, hydrogen gas, and methane gas.
FIG. 1 shows an example of a triple ring lance in which reducing gas is blown. Reducing gas is blown from the central tube 1, nitrogen is blown from the intermediate tube 2, and oxygen-enriched air is blown from the outer tube 3 into the blast furnace. Since the reducing gas blown from the central pipe 1 and the air enriched with oxygen are blocked by the nitrogen blown from the intermediate pipe 2, the reducing gas does not burn early. Therefore, the reducing gas can pass through the raceway and enter the blast furnace furnace while maintaining the reducing property.
[Second Embodiment]
In this embodiment, reducing gas and PC are blown from a blast furnace tuyere using a triple ring lance. Reducing gas is blown from the central portion, nitrogen is blown from the middle portion, and oxygen-enriched air is blown from the outer side (outer peripheral portion), and PC is blown from another single tube. When the amount of PC blowing is large, there are a plurality of single PC blowing tubes.
FIG. 2 shows an example of a triple ring lance with PC and reducing gas blowing. Reducing gas is blown from the central tube 1, nitrogen is blown from the intermediate tube 2, oxygen-enriched air is blown into the blast furnace from the outer tube 3, and PC is a PC blown single tube 4. Infused from. Since the reducing gas blown from the central pipe 1 and the air enriched with oxygen are blocked by the nitrogen blown from the intermediate pipe 2, the reducing gas does not burn early. The reducing gas can pass through the raceway and enter the blast furnace furnace while maintaining the reducing property. The combustion of the PC is performed in an atmosphere having a high oxygen concentration. As a result, the amount of pulverized coal C that remains unburned and accumulates in the core decreases.

  Next, examples of the present invention will be described, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

FIG. 3 shows a raceway simulation combustion experiment apparatus. The furnace is composed of a lower furnace 5 and a middle furnace 6, and the middle furnace 6 can be removed for the convenience of sampling the furnace contents of the lower furnace 5 after completion of the test. Coke is charged from the upper part of the central furnace 6. The coke and reducing gas such as COG, LNG, or hydrogen gas blown from the tuyeres 7 of the lower furnace burn in the raceway 8 in front of the tuyere. During the combustion test, the temperature of the raceway 8 in front of the tuyere is measured. After the test, the raceway is dismantled to check the unburned char of pulverized coal.
FIG. 4 shows the arrangement of thermometers in the raceway simulation combustion experiment apparatus. (A) is a side view and (B) is a plan view. The thermometer 9 measures a total of 10 locations in the upper and lower two stages.
Example 1
An experiment was conducted in which reducing gas consisting of methane and hydrogen was blown from the tuyere. Table 1 shows the blowing conditions. Comparative Example 1 (A) is a case where only blowing and no reducing gas blowing. Comparative Example 2 (B) is a case where reducing gas is blown from a gas blowing single pipe in a blow blow pipe. Example 1 (C) is a case where reducing gas is blown by the triple pipe of the invention according to claim 1 of the present application.
In Example 1 (C), a reducing gas-injected triple ring lance shown in FIG. 2 was used. Reducing gas was blown from the central tube 1, nitrogen was blown from the intermediate tube 2, and oxygen-enriched air was blown from the outer tube 3.

FIG. 5 shows the temperature of the front tuyere raceway.
First, Comparative Example 1 (A) will be described. In Comparative Example 1 (A), when only coke is burned by oxygen-enriched air, the following reaction occurs.
C + O ₂ → CO ₂ (1)
CO ₂ + C → 2CO (2)
The coke burns by the exothermic reaction of the formula (1), and the gas temperature in the raceway rises due to the heat generated by the combustion. When O ₂ almost disappears, an endothermic reaction of formula (2) occurs and the temperature decreases, but this reaction occurs relatively slowly. As a result, the temperature in the raceway shown in FIG. 5A was measured.

Next, Comparative Example 2 (B) will be described. When the reducing gas (CH ₄ , H ₂ ) of Comparative Example 2 (B) is blown into the tuyere tip position by a gas blowing single tube, the following reaction is performed in addition to the above formulas (1) and (2). Happens.
CH ₄ + 2O ₂ → CO ₂ + 2H ₂ O (4)
H ₂ + 1 / 2O ₂ → H ₂ O (5)
H ₂ O + C → H ₂ + CO (3)
CH ₄ + CO ₂ → CO + 2H ₂ (6)
The injected CH ₄ and H ₂ gas generates heat by the reaction of the equations (4) and (5) prior to the combustion of the coke, and then accelerates the combustion of the coke according to the equation (1) at a high temperature. become. The highest temperature part in the raceway moves to the tuyere side more than the case of the comparative example 1 (A) by the reducing gas combusted at an early stage. The endothermic reaction of equations (2) and (3) starts on the rear side of the raceway beyond the highest temperature part. For the reducing gas (CO, H ₂ ) generated by the reaction of the formulas (2) and (3) and the N ₂ gas heated at the raceway, the formulas (2) and (3) are endothermic reactions. In addition, the gas temperature is lowered due to heat transfer from the combustion product gas to the surrounding coke and heat loss from the furnace wall. As a result, the temperature in the raceway shown in FIG. 5B was measured.

Next, Example 1 (C) will be described. The reducing gas was blown and blown using the triple pipe of the present invention (see FIG. 2). Since nitrogen gas is blown at 10 NM ³ / HR from the intermediate pipe 2 of the triple pipe, the air flow rate is adjusted so that N ₂ during blowing is reduced by 10 NM ³ / HR, and the O ₂ amount during blowing is A, The oxygen enrichment rate was adjusted to be the same as B. Moreover, since the nitrogen gas blowing from the central tube of the triple tube lance was at room temperature, the blowing temperature was increased so as to maintain blowing sensible heat.
The reducing gas (CH ₄ , H ₂ ) blown from the central pipe 1 is brought into contact with the oxygen-enriched air (hot air) blown from the outer pipe 3 by the nitrogen gas blown from the intermediate pipe 2. Is hindered and combustion is delayed. As a result, combustion of coke and oxygen-enriched air (hot air) precedes, resulting in a temperature distribution close to that of Comparative Example 1 (A). Since some of the blown gas reacts with oxygen-enriched air, it slightly approaches the pattern of Comparative Example 1 (A) to Comparative Example 2 (B), but the highest temperature part is considerably deeper than that of Comparative Example 2 (B). Returning to the side, the temperature drop at the back of the raceway is also mitigated. Therefore, most of the blown-in H ₂ is heated to remain unreacted H ₂ without going through the reaction path of the formulas (5) to (3), and CH ₄ is heated from the formulas (4) to (2), It is considered that the reducing gas is formed by the reaction of the equation (6) on the rear side of the raceway without passing through the route of the equation (3).
For this reason, the heat loss from the gas was reduced, and the temperature was raised by the Bosch gas (reducing gas (CO, H ₂ ) generated by the reaction of the formula (2) and the formula (6)), the injected H ₂ gas, and the raceway. A lot of sensible heat of N ₂ ) can be secured. From the above, the temperature in the raceway shown in FIG. 5C was measured.

(Example 2)
An experiment was conducted in which reducing gas consisting of methane and hydrogen and PC were blown from the tuyere. Table 2 shows the blowing conditions. Comparative Example 3 (D) is a case where only PC is blown and no reducing gas is blown. Comparative Example 4 (E) is a case where PC is blown from the inner pipe of the double pipe in the blow blow pipe and reducing gas is blown from the outer pipe. Example 2 (F) is a case where reducing gas is blown by the triple pipe of the invention according to claim 2 of the present application. The triple ring lance of PC and reducing gas blowing shown in FIG. 2 was used. Reducing gas is blown from the central tube 1, nitrogen is blown from the intermediate tube 2, and oxygen-enriched air is blown from the outer tube 3, and the PC is blown from another PC blowing single tube. The reducing gas blown from the central tube 1 is blocked by the oxygen-enriched air blown from the outer peripheral tube 3 and the nitrogen blown from the intermediate tube 2, so that the reducing gas is released early. There is no burning. Therefore, it is considered that the combustion of the PC is performed prior to the reducing gas because oxygen during blowing is not taken by the reducing gas.

  FIG. 6 shows the raceway temperature when pulverized coal and reducing gas are injected.

First, Comparative Example 3 (D) will be described. When only the pulverized coal of Comparative Example 3 (D) is blown, the following reaction occurs.
PC + XO ₂ → YCO ₂ + ZH ₂ O (7)
CO ₂ + C → 2CO (8)
H ₂ O + C → H ₂ + CO (9)
First, PC burns by the reaction of equation (7), and the gas temperature rises due to heat generation. When O ₂ almost disappears, an endothermic reaction of formula (8) and formula (9) occurs and the temperature decreases, but this reaction occurs relatively slowly. As a result, the temperature in the raceway shown in FIG. 6D was measured.

Next, Comparative Example 4 (E) will be described. When PC and reducing gas (CH ₄ , H ₂ ) are blown through a double tube lance, the reaction of the following formula occurs.
CH ₄ + 2O ₂ → CO ₂ + 2H ₂ O (10)
H ₂ + (1/2) O ₂ → H ₂ O (11)
The reducing gas (CH ₄ , H ₂ ) that has been blown out generates heat in advance by the exothermic reaction of the formulas (10) and (11), and the combustion of the PC by the formula (7) is also accelerated to a high temperature. . The highest temperature part in the raceway moves to the tuyere side compared to the case of Comparative Example 3 (D). On the back side of the raceway ahead of the highest temperature part, endothermic reactions of formulas (8) and (9) start. For the reducing gas (CO, H ₂ ) generated by the reaction of the equations (8) and (9) and the N ₂ gas heated by the raceway, the equations (8) and (9) are endothermic reactions. In addition, the gas temperature is lowered due to heat transfer from the combustion product gas to the surrounding coke and heat loss from the furnace wall. On the far side of the raceway that is far from the tuyere, the temperature is lower than that of Comparative Example 3 (D). As a result, the temperature in the raceway indicated by E in FIG. 6 was measured.
In addition, after the experiment was completed, the device was dismantled and unburned char remaining in the coke region at the back of the raceway (core) was collected. FIG. 7 shows the residual amount of unburned char in the furnace core when pulverized coal and reducing gas are injected.
In Comparative Example 4 (E), a larger amount of unburned char remained as compared with Comparative Example 3 (D). This is because the oxygen in the reaction of the equations (10) and (11) is consumed before the combustion of the gas, so that the oxygen for burning the PC is insufficient, and the reactions in the equations (8) and (9) occur subsequently. Then, since C of coke having a temperature higher than C in PC is used in advance, it is estimated that C of PC remains unburned and accumulates in the core.

Next, Example 2 (F) will be described. Since nitrogen gas is blown at 10 NM ³ / HR from the central tube 1 of the triple pipe lance, the air flow rate is adjusted so that N ₂ during blowing is reduced by 10 NM ³ / HR, and the amount of O ₂ during blowing is compared. The oxygen enrichment rate was adjusted to be the same as in Example 3 (D) and Comparative Example 4 (E). Further, since the nitrogen gas blown from the central tube 1 of the triple tube lance is normal temperature, the blowing temperature was increased so as to maintain the blowing sensible heat. As shown in FIG. 2, two PC blowing single tubes 4 were blown through the outer peripheral tube 3 of the triple tube. As a result of this blowing, the temperature in the raceway indicated by F in FIG. 6 was measured. The reducing gas (CH ₄ , H ₂ ) and oxygen-enriched air (hot air) are blocked from contact by the inert nitrogen between them, and the PC is separated from the oxygen-enriched air (hot air) in the outer peripheral pipe 3. Reacting prior to the reducing gas, a temperature distribution close to that of Comparative Example 3 (D) was obtained. Since some of the gas reacts with oxygen-enriched air, it slightly approaches the pattern of Comparative Example 3 (D) to Comparative Example 4 (E), but the hottest part is considerably deeper than Comparative Example 4 (E). The temperature drop at the back of the raceway has been mitigated.
After the experiment was completed, the device was dismantled and unburned char remaining in the coke area at the back of the raceway (core) was collected. The amount of unburned char indicated by F in Example 2 (F) shown in FIG. 7 was smaller than E in Comparative Example 4 (E), and was almost the same as D in Comparative Example 3 (D). It shows that the combustion of the pulverized coal was able to be burned without being obstructed by taking oxygen into the reducing gas.

  It is possible to provide a reducing gas blowing method and a blowing lance from a blast furnace tuyere that allow the reducing gas to enter the blast furnace furnace while maintaining the reducing property.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Center part pipe | tube, 2 ... Middle part pipe | tube, 3 ... Outer peripheral part pipe | tube, 4 ... PC injection | pouring single pipe | tube, 5 ... Lower furnace, 6 ... Middle furnace, 7 ... Tuyere, 8 ... Raceway, 9 ... Thermometer.

Claims (4)

A method of blowing reducing gas from a blast furnace tuyere using a triple ring lance,
A reducing gas blowing method from a blast furnace tuyere, wherein reducing gas is blown from a central pipe, nitrogen is blown from an intermediate pipe, and oxygen-enriched air is blown from an outer peripheral pipe.   The method of blowing reducing gas from a blast furnace tuyere according to claim 1, wherein pulverized coal is blown from a single pulverized coal blowing single pipe that joins the outer peripheral pipe of the triple ring lance. A triple ring lance that blows reducing gas from the blast furnace tuyere,
A reducing gas blowing lance from a blast furnace tuyere, wherein reducing gas is blown from a central pipe, nitrogen is blown from an intermediate pipe, and oxygen-enriched air is blown from an outer peripheral pipe.   The reducing gas blowing lance from the blast furnace tuyere according to claim 3, wherein a pulverized coal blowing nozzle is joined into an outer peripheral pipe of the reducing gas blowing lance.

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