JP4424338B2 - Raw material charging method and apparatus for mobile hearth furnace - Google Patents

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  TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a technology for charging raw materials into a mobile hearth furnace, and in particular, metal-containing materials such as ores containing metal, ironmaking dust, sludge, industrial waste, that is, raw materials together with carbonaceous materials on the mobile hearth. After charging and deposition, while the mobile hearth moves in the heating furnace, the raw material for deposition is heated and reduced and melted to move to a mobile hearth furnace for continuously recovering the reduced metal. The raw material and carbonaceous material charging method and apparatus for the same, and a raw material charging method which can reliably and easily perform generation, separation and discharge of reduced metal after melting And its device.

  Reduced metals such as steel are generally produced in converters or electric furnaces. Among these, in the electric furnace method, scrap and reduced iron are heated and melted using electric energy and, depending on the case, further refined into steel. However, in recent years, there has been a tendency to use reduced iron instead of scrap due to the tight supply and demand of scrap and the demand for higher quality steel.

  One of the manufacturing processes for reduced iron, etc., is to deposit iron ore and a solid reducing agent on the horizontal moving hearth, and to produce reduced iron by heating and reducing the iron ore by radiant heat transfer from above. There is a so-called mobile hearth method (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-108188). The movable hearth furnace used in this known method is a furnace of a type in which the charged deposition raw material is heated in the process in which the hearth moves horizontally in the heating furnace, and the horizontally moving hearth is shown in FIG. Usually, it takes the form of circular (turning) movement as shown in FIG.

A rotary hearth furnace will be described as an example of the above mobile hearth furnace.
As shown in FIG. 1, the conventional rotary hearth furnace has an annular furnace body 10 partitioned into a pre-tropical zone 10a, a reduction zone 10b, and a cooling zone 10d from the raw material supply side to the discharge side. The annular moving hearth 11 is arranged to rotate in the furnace body. On the rotating movable hearth 11, for example, a mixture of a raw material such as iron ore and a carbon material which is a solid reducing agent is charged. In addition, as the raw material, a carbonaceous material interior pellet is suitably used. The hearth 11 has a refractory applied on its surface, but may be formed by depositing a granular refractory, for example. A burner 13 is disposed on the top of the furnace body 10, and a metal-containing oxide such as iron ore deposited on the moving hearth 11 is placed under a reducing agent with the burner 13 as a heat source. Reduced iron to obtain reduced iron. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 14 is a charging device for charging the raw material onto the hearth, and reference numeral 15 is a discharging device for discharging the reduced product.

By the way, general metal-containing materials such as iron ore contain many gangue components, although there are differences depending on the place of production. On the other hand, ash is also present in coal, coal char and coke, which are representative examples of solid reducing agents. include. In the mobile hearth furnace, gangue is inevitable in the reduced iron produced, and the ash contained in the reducing agent also adheres and remains on the reduced iron. There was a restriction that only quality products had to be used.
Furthermore, if the electric furnace is operated using reduced iron containing a large amount of gangue and ash as raw materials, the amount of lime used to adjust the basicity of slag must be increased, and the cost increases due to an increase in the amount of lime used. From this point of view, the high-grade iron ore with as little gangue component is necessary for the operation of the conventional mobile hearth furnace. It was essential to use only stones and to use reducing agents with low ash content.

  However, recently, due to the depletion of iron ore and coal resources and changes in properties, it is necessary to use lower grades, and the fact is that there is an urgent need to resolve these issues. .

  For these reasons, in the operation of a mobile hearth furnace, it has been necessary to develop a technique for effectively separating a metal component and a gangue component due to the influence of the above-described raw material circumstances. For example, in order to separate the metal component and the gangue component, it is effective to melt and separate the gangue and ash from the reduced iron. That is, it is a method in which reduced iron is melted to generate metal, and gangue and ash are hatched to generate slag.

  However, melting reduced iron on the hearth is a problem that the molten metal melts into the hearth refractory or penetrates into fine cracks and damages the hearth refractory when discharging the metal after solidification. Occurs. In particular, because the interior of the mobile hearth furnace is quite hot for ore reduction, expensive refractories for high temperatures are used, and this hearth refractory is used to reduce the production cost of products. There is a restriction that things should not be damaged for a long time.

  In order to overcome these problems, the applicant previously disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-106815 “layered raw materials mainly composed of fine iron ore and solid solid reducing material on a horizontally moving hearth. In the operation method of the mobile hearth furnace, in which iron ore is reduced by radiant heat transfer from the upper part of the furnace, the mixed powder of powdered iron ore and powdered solid reducing material, or powdered iron ore and powdered auxiliary material and powder The mixed powder with the solid reducing material is scattered on the hearth through the powdered solid reducing material so as not to come into direct contact with the hearth, and the reduced reduced iron is scattered on the hearth at least once. Proposing the operation method of the mobile hearth furnace characterized by melting, `` With this, while using simple equipment, without damaging the equipment and ensuring smooth operation, Reduced iron without gangue and ash, that is, electricity It was pledged obtain a high reduction iron evaluation "as to the furnace.

  However, even with this improved technology, the raw materials scattered in small sections flow in the lateral direction when melted and agglomerate each other, making it difficult to discharge in the form of a large metal or slag plate, There were some issues to be solved.

  Therefore, the main object of the present invention is to realize the rapid melting of the reduction product generated on the hearth to ensure the formation of a small lump of metal or slag, thereby facilitating individual discharge outside the furnace. It is to propose a method for charging raw materials and the like. Another object of the present invention is to establish a technique for easily producing a reduced metal while achieving high productivity without having to pre-process raw materials such as pelletization.

As a result of intensive studies to achieve the above object, the inventors have developed the present invention according to the following gist configuration.
That is, the present invention moves in the moving hearth is deposited by charged and carbonaceous material consisting of raw material and powdery solid reducing agent is a powdered metal inclusions, the moving hearth is a heating furnace In the course of charging the raw material on the mobile hearth of the type of mobile hearth furnace of the type in which the raw material is heated and reduced and further reduced to obtain a reduced metal,
On the moving hearth, first, a carbon material is charged to form a carbon material layer, and then the raw material or a mixture of the raw material and the carbon material is charged to the upper layer of the carbon material layer to form a raw material layer, A method of charging a raw material into a mobile hearth furnace, wherein a concave portion is formed in the raw material layer and a plurality of concave portions are formed in the carbonaceous material layer at the same time by pressing protrusions from above the raw material layer. It is.

The present invention also relates to a mobile hearth, is deposited by charged and carbonaceous material consisting of raw material and powdery solid reducing agent is a powdered metal inclusions, the moving hearth moves in the furnace In the middle of the mobile hearth furnace of the type in which the raw material is heated and reduced and further melted to obtain a reduced metal, the raw material is charged onto the mobile hearth,
On the moving hearth, a carbonaceous material charging means for charging a carbonaceous material, and a raw material charging means for charging a raw material or a mixture of the raw material and the carbonaceous material on a carbonaceous material layer formed on the mobile hearth, by pressing the projection from the top of the raw material layer, it is comprised of the recess with a device for forming a recess in the carbonaceous material layer at the same time forming a recess in the previous year material layer, the recess with device moving hearth The apparatus for charging raw material into the mobile hearth furnace is provided downstream of the raw material charging means along the moving direction.

In the present invention, as the metal-containing material in the raw material, iron ore, Cr ore, Ni ore, sand iron, reduced iron powder, iron dust, stainless steel refining dust, iron sludge and other iron content, Ni content, Cr content, A powdery substance containing a metal such as Zn or Pb is used.
On the other hand, as a solid reducing agent, that is, a carbon material, carbon-containing material powders such as coal char, coke, steam coal, and anthracite are mainly used. These powdery raw materials and powdered carbon materials may be used in a single type, or two or more types may be mixed and used. Such a metal-containing material and a solid reducing agent are mixed to obtain a charge for a hearth furnace.
In the case of a metal-containing material that originally contains a sufficient carbon content, such as iron-making dust or iron-making sludge in the raw material, it can be used as it is without mixing carbonaceous materials. In addition, a minimum amount of auxiliary materials necessary for facilitating melting of reduced iron and ash during melting may be added to the raw materials. As such an auxiliary material, limestone, meteorite, serpentine, dolomite and the like can be used. Further, the raw material may be agglomerated materials such as briquettes and pellets.

As described above, according to the present invention, a plurality of concave portions scattered at a depth extending from the top of the upper raw material layer to the lower carbon material layer are formed by the protrusions of the indenting roll, so that the surface layer is heated. The metal-containing material is reduced by heating, melted and separated into metal and slag, and can be easily agglomerated in the recesses formed in the carbonaceous material layer by the surface tension and gravity of the melt. It is possible to produce granular metal and slag that are dispersed and solidified. In addition, in the present invention, since the recesses are formed by denting at the final stage of a series of raw material charging processes, the recesses formed in the subsequent processes are not likely to collapse, and the agglomeration of metal slag into the recesses is ensured. Can be done. Furthermore, since the surface of the raw material layer is made uneven, the surface area to be heated is increased and the heat transfer is improved, so that delay of reduction and melting can be prevented and productivity is improved. In particular, molten metal and molten slag are reliably agglomerated and granulated in the recesses, so it is easy to discharge from the moving hearth, and it is easy to remove the classification of the carbon material layer discharged together with the carbon material. And the yield is extremely high.
And since the melting of the metal-containing material is performed on the carbon material layer, there is no phenomenon that the molten metal penetrates into the fine gaps of the hearth refractory, and this causes no damage to the hearth refractory. do not do.
Furthermore, according to the present invention, since the protrusion height of the indenting roll reaches at least the surface of the carbon material layer or deeper than that, the shape of the recess can be ensured more reliably. Thus, the agglomeration of molten metal and molten slag is more reliable.
According to the present invention, when the recess is formed, the raw material layer in the vicinity of the recess is pressed, so that the rise around the recess that occurs at the moment when the recess is formed can be prevented. Shape can be formed. Therefore, the controllability of the concave shape is improved, and as a result, the variation in the shape of the agglomerated metal and slag is reduced, and the handling property in the subsequent process is improved.

  In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a solid reductant, that is, a carbonaceous material is charged and deposited on the moving hearth to form a carbonaceous material layer, and a raw material or a mixture of the raw material and the carbonaceous material is volume-added thereon to form a raw material layer. Form. The carbon material layer deposited as a lower layer on the moving hearth is not melted even if the raw material (metal-containing material or the like) deposited on the upper layer is melted, and is not mixed with each other. This is because the carbon material layer substantially does not play a role as a reducing agent, and hardly changes except that so-called volatile matter is lost. A general solid reducing agent contains about 10% of ash, but most of the remainder is carbonaceous and maintains a solid state at a high temperature of about 1000 to 1500 ° C.

  Therefore, a feature of the embodiment of the present invention is that the presence of the lower carbon material layer can prevent the molten product from coming into direct contact with the hearth even if the upper material layer is melted. That is, in this invention, this carbon material layer becomes a refractory protective layer. Furthermore, after the raw material layer (metal-containing material, etc.) laminated and deposited on the carbon material layer is melted, the contact area between the molten metal-containing material and the carbon material increases, so that the reduction reaction proceeds rapidly. It will also play a role as a reducing agent.

In the present invention, such a carbon material layer is characterized in that, after a raw material layer is charged and deposited thereon, a concave portion is formed on the surface thereof. That is, the protrusion is pressed from above the raw material layer so that the concave portion is formed in the carbon material layer at the same time that the concave portion is formed in the raw material layer.
In general, the metal and slag melted and generated by the progress of the reduction reaction have the property of accumulating due to the surface tension of the melt and the action of gravity, so if there is a recess in the carbon material layer, Metal and molten slag are likely to gather, and if the recesses are scattered on the carbon material layer, the accumulation of the metal or the like is held in a state of being dispersed in the form of dots. In this case, since the volume of the molten metal and molten slag is reduced to 10 to 60% of the volume of the raw material mixture, the molten metal and molten slag are each separated into the recesses.

  Since the specific gravity of the molten metal and molten slag is larger than that of the carbonaceous material, it is conceivable that the molten metal and molten slag will sink under the carbonaceous material layer. However, the melt is granulated by its own surface tension, is scattered and held on the carbon material layer, and is accommodated in the recess as it is.

  As a result, when molten metal or molten slag is cooled in the cooling zone on the moving hearth, the metal and slag from which the gangue and ash are separated are held as a lump for each recess unit on the surface of the carbon material layer. Will be. Moreover, the solidified metal and slag are held away from the hearth by the presence of this carbon material layer, so that they are not welded or damaged to the hearth. Therefore, it is inevitably easy to discharge out of the furnace.

In contrast, when the surface of the carbon material layer is kept smooth, the molten metal and molten slag are retained on the carbon material layer, and the refractory in the hearth is not damaged. The latter metal and slag are not divided into small parts on the carbon material layer and scattered, and in many cases, a large continuous lump is often formed, and the metal is discharged out of the furnace. May be difficult to do.
Note that the slag and metal discharged from the hearth in the furnace are separated from the slag by magnetic force or wind selection outside the furnace, or are sorted using the density difference between the slag and the metal. Separately collect.

In the present invention, the following method is adopted in order to form the above-described recess on the surface of the lower carbon material layer.
FIG. 3 shows an example of a charging device 14 as a comparative example first examined by the inventors for forming the recess 3 in the lower carbon material layer 1. The charging device 14 is provided with the carbonaceous material hopper 4 and the raw material hopper 5 along the moving direction on the moving hearth 11 moving at a speed of 20 to 160 mm / sec, and a depression between the two. An attaching roll 6 is provided. Then, since the carbon material cut out from the carbon material hopper 4 is deposited with a thickness of about 50 mm to form the carbon material layer 1, a plurality of protrusions 6 a corresponding to the recess shape are formed from the surface to the trunk circumferential surface. The recess 6 is formed by pressing the projection 6a of the indenting roll 6 provided with a height of about 13 mm. Next, on the surface of the carbon material layer 1 with the recess 3, a raw material mainly containing a metal-containing material is cut out and deposited from the raw material hopper 5 to a thickness of 10 to 25 mm, and then sent to the pre-tropical zone of the hearth furnace. It has become.

  The formation of the recess 3 in the carbon material layer 1 by the charging device shown as the comparative example is performed by cutting out and stacking the raw material after the formation of the recess 3, so that the shape of the recess 3 is changed by the impact of the raw material and the stacking. Since it is easy to collapse, the accumulation ratio of the melt (metal, slag) is low, the degree of melt interspersed is poor, and the surface of the raw material that is heated in the hearth furnace is flat, so the raw material in the recess 3 is melted. There was a problem that was easily delayed.

  The present invention proposes a charging apparatus shown in FIG. 4 and a charging method using this apparatus as a means for overcoming the problems of the charging apparatus of the comparative example. In this charging device 14 according to the present invention, a charcoal hopper 4 is first disposed along a moving direction on a moving hearth 11 moving at a speed of 20 to 160 mm / sec, and a raw material hopper is disposed downstream thereof. 5 and the indentation roll 6 having a protrusion 6a having a height of about 23 mm on the waist surface. According to such a charging device 14, first, the carbon material is cut out from the carbon material hopper 4 so as to have a thickness of about 50 mm to form the carbon material layer 1 on the hearth, and then on the material hopper 5. A raw material mainly containing a metal-containing material is cut out, and a raw material layer 2 having a thickness of 10 to 25 mm is laminated and deposited. Thus, the generated depression (concave portion) is exerted on the carbon material layer 1 to be depressed.

As a result, for example, even if the initial thickness of the raw material layer 2 is 15 mm, the concave portion is compressed to about 7 mm, and at the same time, the bottom (outer lower end) of the generated concave portion 3 is the surface of the carbon material layer 1. It will be depressed about 15mm from the bottom. Therefore, the thickness of the bottom portion of the raw material layer 2c that has been compressed and reduced to a thickness of about 7 mm is completely buried in the carbon material layer 2 as it is, and the above-described recess 3 is formed. become.
The presence of the recess 3 having such a structure, that is, the raw material layer 2c buried in the carbon material layer 2 makes it easy for the molten metal or the like to agglomerate in the recess 3 and make the doting clear. .

  In addition, since the surface of the raw material layer heated in the hearth furnace increases the heat receiving area due to the unevenness, heat transfer to the raw material layer is promoted and productivity is improved. Furthermore, according to the present invention, since the concave portion 3 is formed at the final stage of charging the raw materials and the like, the shape is not collapsed. Therefore, the agglomeration of metal and slag can be surely realized and discharged. There will be no obstacles.

In order to make the operation of the charging device 14 according to the present invention even more effective, in the present invention, the surface of the raw material layer 2 around the concave portion 3 is preliminarily pressed and crushed before the depression. Desirably, the raw material layer 2 is consolidated. This is because the concave portion is not collapsed when the recess is formed, so that a concave portion having a firm shape can be formed and held.
As the means for forming such a concave portion, in addition to the above-described depression roll, any appropriate means such as a means for pressing a stamp having a convex portion from above or a rod having a predetermined shape from above can be adopted.

In this example, an experiment for cold stacking (a charging method) was performed using a raw material charging experimental apparatus under conditions suitable for the present invention, and the effect was verified. On the moving hearth 11, coke having a particle size of 10 mm and 100% is stacked with a layer thickness of 50 mm to form a carbon material layer 1. On the carbon material layer 1, ore and coke having a particle size of -3 mm and 100% are formed. Were mixed in a weight ratio of 80:20 at a layer thickness of 15 mm to form a raw material layer 2 having a predetermined thickness. Thereafter, a plurality of depressions (recesses 3) having a depth extending from the surface layer of the raw material layer 2 to the carbonaceous material layer 1 are formed by the depression roll 6 provided with a plurality of protrusions 6a on the surface of the raw material layer 2. It was. At this time, the dent roll 6 having a diameter of 100A and a projection height of 23 mm was used, but the shape of the dent roll 6 is not limited to this. However, a larger diameter is preferable, and it has been found that the height of the protrusion 6a should be such that the final depth of the recess remaining in the carbon material layer is about 15 mm. Moreover, it is preferable to make it the same or less than the traveling speed of the peripheral speed moving hearth 11 of the roll. Furthermore, when attaching a dent (concave part), it turned out that a dent can be formed more reliably by lowering the height position of the dent roll 6.

  As a result of stacking the carbonaceous material and the raw materials as described above, the depth of the depression (concave portion) finally remaining in the carbonaceous material layer was as good as 15 mm on average. When this is heated from the surface of the raw material layer 2 in the heating furnace, the reduced product of the metal-containing material is melted and separated into the metal and slag, and gathers in the recess 3 remaining in the carbon material layer 1, Was achieved.

  In such a charging method, the particle size of the carbon material forming the carbon material layer may be about 10 mm or less, and the particle size of the metal-containing material in the upper layer also includes whether or not the carbon material is contained. Regardless, the purpose can be achieved as long as it is equal to or less than the carbon material forming the carbon material layer 1. As an example of such a metal-containing material, it has been found that metal-containing dust such as blast furnace dust can be used.

  The present invention is used for a raw material charging method / apparatus in the field of manufacturing technology of reduced metal such as reduced iron.

It is a basic diagram of a mobile hearth furnace. It is a schematic diagram of a charge deposit layer. It is a basic diagram of the charging device which is a comparative example. It is a basic diagram of the charging device concerning this invention. It is sectional drawing which expands and shows the detail around a recessed part.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Carbon material layer 2 Raw material layer 3 Recess 4 Carbon material hopper 5 Raw material hopper 6 Recessed roll 6a Protrusion 11 Moving hearth

Claims (2)

The moving hearth is deposited by charged and carbonaceous material consisting of raw material and powdery solid reducing agent is a powdered metal-containing material, while the moving hearth moves in the furnace, the raw material In the charging of a moving hearth furnace of the type that obtains reduced metal by heating and reducing, and charging the raw material etc. on the moving hearth,
On the moving hearth, first, a carbon material is charged to form a carbon material layer, and then the raw material or a mixture of the raw material and the carbon material is charged to the upper layer of the carbon material layer to form a raw material layer, A method of charging a raw material into a mobile hearth furnace, wherein a concave portion is formed in the raw material layer and a plurality of concave portions are formed in the carbonaceous material layer at the same time by pressing protrusions from above the raw material layer. . The moving hearth is deposited by charged and carbonaceous material consisting of raw material and powdery solid reducing agent is a powdered metal-containing material, while the moving hearth moves in the furnace, the raw material A type of mobile hearth furnace of a type in which the reduced metal is obtained by heating and reducing and further melting to obtain a raw material on the mobile hearth,
On the moving hearth, a carbonaceous material charging means for charging a carbonaceous material, and a raw material charging means for charging a raw material or a mixture of the raw material and the carbonaceous material on a carbonaceous material layer formed on the mobile hearth, by pressing the projection from the top of the raw material layer, the material layer at the same time forming a recess in the carbonaceous material layer is comprised of the recess with a device for forming a recess, the recess with device moving hearth An apparatus for charging raw material into a mobile hearth furnace, which is provided on the downstream side of the raw material charging means along the moving direction.

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