PROCESS FOR PRODUCING HOT BRIQUETTE IRON USING HIGH-TEMPERATURE REDUCED IRON, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEMPERATURE CONTROL OF REDUCED IRON FOR HOT FORMING FOR THE PROCESS

摘要

The present invention provides a method capable of producing good hot-briquette iron using high-temperature reduced iron discharged at a high temperature from a reducing furnace such as a rotary hearth furnace. The method includes a temperature control step of cooling the high-temperature reduced iron and controlling the temperature of the reduced iron to an appropriate hot-forming temperature of over 600°C and 750°C or less, and a step of producing hot briquette iron by hot-forming the high-temperature reduced iron of the appropriate hot-forming temperature with a briquetting machine. The temperature control step includes substantially horizontally holding a rotating drum having a feed blade spirally provided on the inner periphery thereof, charging the high-temperature reduced iron in the rotating drum and passing it through the rotating drum by rotating the rotating drum while maintaining the inside of the rotating drum in a non-oxidizing atmosphere with inert gas, and cooling the outer peripheral surface of the rotating drum by contact with a cooling fluid during the passage of the high-temperature reduced iron through the rotating drum to indirectly cool the reduced iron so that the temperature of the reduced iron is the appropriate hot-forming temperature.