Method for operating a blast furnace and blast furnace installation

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8545597
APP PUB NO 20110209576A1
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13126486

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A method for operating a blast furnace and a corresponding blast furnace, the method including recovering top gas from the blast furnace, submitting at least a portion of the top gas to a recycling process, and feeding the recycled top gas back into the blast furnace, where the recycling process includes feeding the recovered top gas to a reformer unit, feeding volatile carbon containing material to the reformer unit, proceeding to flash gasification of the volatile carbon containing material in the reformer unit, at a temperature between 1100 and 1300° C., and thereby producing devolatized carbonaceous material and synthesis gas, and allowing the devolatized carbonaceous material and synthesis gas to react with the recovered top gas.

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PAUL WURTH S A1122 LUXEMBOURG

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Roth, Jean-Luc Thionville, FR 30 53
Simoes, Jean-Paul Walferdange, LU 13 23

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