摘要:
Method and apparatus for direct shaft furnace smelting of oxidic ores, concentrates or calcines, the method comprising causing a pelletized or briquetted mixture of the ore or concentrate or calcines and coal to gravitate slowly downwards first through one or more carbonizing columns having holes or slots in the walls thereof and then through a main furnace shaft therebeneath, introducing oxygen-containing gas into a combustion chamber surrounding or partly surrounding the carbonizing column or columns to effect substantial combustion of tars and combustible gases emerging through the holes or slots from the descending material in the carbonizing column or columns, withdrawing the products of combustion from the combustion chamber, and withdrawing the metal or alloy produced from the main furnace shaft; and apparatus adapted therefor.