MOLTEN IRON REFINING METHOD
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240076754A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US18270617

    申请日:2021-12-21

    IPC分类号: C21C5/35 C21C7/064 C21C7/068

    CPC分类号: C21C5/35 C21C7/064 C21C7/068

    摘要: A molten iron refining method having, an auxiliary material, and an oxidizing gas supplied through a top-blowing lance, to a cold iron source and molten pig iron that are contained/fed in a converter-type vessel, and molten iron is subjected to a refining process. A pre-charged cold iron source is charged into the converter-type vessel at an amount not larger than 0.15 times. A furnace-top-added cold iron source that's part or all of the cold iron source and added from a furnace top is fed during the refining process. A burner at a leading end of the top-blowing lance that spray holes through which a fuel and a combustion-supporting gas are ejected. During the refining process, a powdery auxiliary material processed into powder that's part of the auxiliary material is blown in, to pass through a flame formed by the burner.

    ELECTRIC FURNACE AND STEELMAKING METHOD
    2.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240191315A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-13

    申请号:US18287140

    申请日:2022-04-08

    IPC分类号: C21C5/52 C21C7/00

    CPC分类号: C21C5/5217 C21C7/0037

    摘要: An electric furnace has a burner directed toward furnace contents. The burner includes a powder-feeding pipe, a jet hole for jetting a fuel, and a jet hole for jetting combustion-supporting gas. Hydrogen gas or a hydrogen-enriched gaseous fuel is jetted as the fuel to form a burner flame. An auxiliary material is jetted through the powder-feeding pipe so that the auxiliary material passes through an inside of the burner flame. According to a steelmaking method, an electric furnace has a burner that includes a jet hole for jetting a fuel and a jet hole for jetting combustion-supporting gas and that jets a flame through the jet holes toward an inside of the electric furnace. Hydrogen gas or a hydrogen-enriched gaseous fuel is used as the fuel of the burner, and an auxiliary material is blown in to pass through an inside of the flame formed by the burner.

    METHOD FOR PRODUCING CHROMIUM-CONTAINING MOLTEN STEEL

    公开(公告)号:US20230304110A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-28

    申请号:US18022791

    申请日:2021-08-23

    IPC分类号: C21C7/00 C21C5/28 C21C7/068

    CPC分类号: C21C7/0025 C21C5/28 C21C7/068

    摘要: A method for producing chromium-containing molten steel from a raw material including a chromium-containing raw material includes a first step in which a slag basicity before rough decarburization by oxygen blowing is adjusted to be not less than 1.5 and not more than 3.0, a slag basicity after rough decarburization by oxygen blowing is adjusted to be not less than 2.0 and not more than 3.5, and then tapping is performed while slag containing a chromium oxide generated by the oxygen blowing is made to remain in the furnace, and a second step in which the slag containing a chromium oxide made to remain is reduced by using a carbon source or a metal source newly added into the same furnace so that chromium is recovered into molten steel. The slag basicity is determined by dividing a CaO concentration by an SiO2 concentration on a mass basis in the slag.

    METHOD FOR DEPHOSPHORIZATION OF MOLTEN IRON
    5.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240229177A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-11

    申请号:US18563597

    申请日:2022-04-19

    摘要: A method for dephosphorization of molten iron includes, while blowing a hydrogen gas, a hydrocarbon gas, or a mixture of these gases into molten iron held in a vessel, supplying a slag-forming agent and an oxygen source to perform a dephosphorization treatment of the molten iron and obtain dephosphorized molten iron, and after the dephosphorization treatment, separating slag floating on a surface of the dephosphorized molten iron from the dephosphorized molten iron. In this method for dephosphorization of molten iron, before the dephosphorization treatment, when obtaining molten iron by melting a cold iron source in a melting furnace and discharging the molten iron from the melting furnace into the vessel, one or both of the following are performed: separating generated slag from the molten iron before the discharge; and separating slag that has flowed into the vessel along with the molten iron from the molten iron.

    CONVERTER STEELMAKING METHOD
    6.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240068061A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-29

    申请号:US18270606

    申请日:2021-12-17

    摘要: A converter steelmaking method has molten pig iron subjected to dephosphorization process for dephosphorized molten iron, dephosphorized molten iron is subjected to decarburization process for molten steel. For dephosphorization process, a first cold iron source in amount meeting Formula (1) is charged into first converter-type vessel, then undephosphorized molten pig iron is charged and subjected to dephosphorization process. Dephosphorized molten iron is discharged and held in molten metal receiving vessel. After second cold iron source is charged into first converter-type vessel in which dephosphorization process has been performed, the dephosphorized molten iron held in molten metal receiving vessel is charged and subjected to decarburization process. % Ws0≤0.1186T−134 (% Ws0≥0) . . . (1), where % Ws0: a ratio (%) of first cold iron source to sum of first cold iron source and charge amount of undephosphorized molten pig iron, and T: a temperature (° C.) of undephosphorized molten pig iron.

    SCRAP DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND SCRAP DETERMINATION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20230173546A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-08

    申请号:US17997368

    申请日:2021-04-23

    IPC分类号: B07C5/342 G06T7/62 H04N23/69

    摘要: Provided are a scrap determination system and method that can improve scrap determination techniques. A scrap determination system (1) comprises: a first scrap determination model (221) generated using teaching data including first learning images, and determines, based on a camera image, grade of scrap in the image and a ratio of the grade; a second scrap determination model (222) generated using teaching data including second learning images, and determines, based on the image, grade of scrap in the image and a ratio of the grade; a selection model (223) configured to determine which of the first scrap determination model (221) and the second scrap determination model (222) is to be used, based on the image; and an output section (24) configured to output information of each grade of scrap and a ratio of the grade determined based on the image using the model selected by the selection model (223).

    METHOD FOR REFINING MOLTEN IRON
    8.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240271233A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-15

    申请号:US18289918

    申请日:2022-04-19

    摘要: A method for refining molten iron that can stably produce low-nitrogen steel is proposed. In this method for refining molten iron, untreated molten iron with a carbon concentration [C]i between 0.5 mass % and 3.0 mass %, both inclusive, is placed into a vessel, and oxygen is blown onto the untreated molten iron under atmospheric pressure while a hydrogen gas, a hydrocarbon gas, or a mixture gas of these gases is blown in to perform a decarburization and denitrification treatment of the untreated molten iron. It is preferable, for example, that a nitrogen concentration [N]f in treated molten iron after being subjected to the decarburization and denitrification treatment be 30 mass ppm or lower; that treated molten iron after being subjected to the decarburization and denitrification treatment be further subjected to a vacuum degassing treatment; that the untreated molten iron include molten iron obtained by melting a cold iron source; that the untreated molten iron be a mixture of primary molten iron obtained by melting a cold iron source in a melting furnace and molten pig iron having a carbon concentration of 2.0 mass % or higher; that the cold iron source include reduced iron; and that the vessel be a converter.

    REFINING METHOD OF MOLTEN IRON AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MOLTEN STEEL USING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20240068060A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-29

    申请号:US18271612

    申请日:2021-12-09

    摘要: Proposed is a molten iron refining method capable of securing an in-flame staying time period of a heat transfer medium without being influenced by height adjustments of a blowing-purpose oxygen-blowing lance. As far as to a position lower than an upper end inside a converter-type vessel 1, a blowing-purpose oxygen-blowing lance 3 that supplies oxidizing gas and is capable of ascending and descending and at least one burner lance 4 capable of ascending and descending independently of the blowing-purpose oxygen-blowing lance are inserted. From the blowing-purpose oxygen-blowing lance, either oxidizing gas or oxidizing gas and CaO-containing refining agent are blown onto the molten iron. Also, a flame is formed by causing the burner lance to discharge fuel gas and combustion supporting gas. Powder particles discharged from the burner lance are caused to pass through the flame and to be blown onto the molten iron in a heat-transferred state, so that the molten iron is thermally compensated.