PROCESS FOR PRODUCING MOLTEN METAL

摘要

A method for manufacturing molten metal by using a stationary non-tilting electric furnace including: a raw material charging chute that is provided in one end of the furnace in the width direction, and is connected to the interior of the furnace from the upper part of the furnace, an electrical heater that heats a lower position of the furnace in the height direction is located in the other end of the furnace in the width direction, and a secondary combustion burner that is provided at the furnace top and between the two ends of the furnace. The method comprising: forming a raw material layer by charging a particular amount of a carbonaceous material and/or metal oxide agglomerates with carbonaceous material containing a nonvolatile metal element that forms molten metal into the furnace from the raw material charging chute, and having a sloping surface extending downward from the one end of the furnace toward the other end of the; subsequently forming an agglomerate layer on the sloping surface of the raw material layer by charging a particular amount of the metal oxide agglomerates with carbonaceous material into the furnace from the raw material charging chute; and subsequently forming a molten metal layer and a molten slag layer in the furnace by heating the lower end of the agglomerate layer with the heater while allowing the agglomerate layer to descend along the sloping surface of the raw material layer toward the lower end by melting; and concurrently thermally reducing the agglomerate layer by radiant heat from secondary combustion by blowing oxygen-containing gas into the furnace from secondary combustion burner to burn CO-containing gas generated from the agglomerate layer.