Blast furnace

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9556497
APP PUB NO 20150008626A1
SERIAL NO

14371504

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A blast furnace includes: a blast furnace body; raw material charging means for charging raw material into the blast furnace body; hot air blowing means for blowing hot air into the blast furnace body; a drying apparatus etc. for evaporating moisture in low-grade coal; a dry distillation apparatus etc. for carbonizing dried coal; a cooling apparatus etc. for cooling carbonized coal; a pulverization apparatus etc. for pulverizing the carbonized coal cooled by the cooling apparatus; a storage tank for storing powdered coal; a nitrogen gas supply source, a conveyor line and a cyclone separator etc. for conveying the powdered coal pulverized by the pulverization apparatus to the inside of the storage tank by generating a gas flow with the nitrogen gas; and an injection lance etc. for feeding the powdered coal inside the storage tank to hot air that is blown into the blast furnace body.

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MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTDTOKYO TOKYO METROPOLIS

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hamada, Tsutomu Tokyo, JP 104 572
Nakagawa, Keiichi Tokyo, JP 46 107
Omoto, Setsuo Tokyo, JP 45 178
Sakaguchi, Masakazu Tokyo, JP 48 563

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