| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 075100620 | Reducing or smelting | 9 |
| 20100050811 | METHOD OF SMELTING COPPER - A method of smelting copper includes: a generating step of generating blister and calcium ferrite slag from copper matte by charging the copper matte into a smelting furnace and oxidizing the copper matte; and a refining step of refining another blister from the calcium ferrite slag in an electrical furnace under a temperature condition of 1250 degrees C. to 1350 degrees C. and under a reductive atmosphere condition of oxygen partial pressure logPO | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100319488 | Continuous production of metallic titanium and titanium-based alloys - Metallic titanium is continuously produced in an electric-arc furnace under a vacuum by the metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride by a reducing agent such as magnesium. The nanoparticles of titanium obtained from the reduction are simultaneously melted in a bath of molten titanium formed by the heat of an electric arc between a consumable titanium electrode and the molten titanium. A voltage applied across the electrode and the molten titanium is adjusted so that molten titanium is maintained in a cooled crystallizer during the entire process. The molten titanium solidifies on the top of a dummy bar that is drawn down as additional titanium is produced. Upon completion of each iterative reduction reaction, the vaporized reducing agent chloride is pumped out of the electric-arc furnace into a condenser using a vacuum pump. Then, additional reducing agent and titanium tetrachloride are added into the furnace, and the process is repeated. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20120067169 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING PRECIOUS METAL SOURCE MATERIALS - A method is disclosed for recovering precious metals from source materials containing precious metals which involves leaching the source material in aqueous reducing liquor to provide a treated solid residue and processing the treated residue to recover precious metals. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120192678 | Methods of Using Tires and Scrap Rubber in the Manufacture and Melting of Steel and Other Metals - A method of using scrap rubber and other scrap materials, such as tires or parts or pieces of tires, to manufacture or melt steel and other metals in a furnace is disclosed. The scrap rubber may be used as a carbon source for the manufacture of steel and other metals, and may be used as an energy source to melt the scrap metal used to make the steel and other metals. The net benefit of this method includes reducing the amount of scrap rubber, such as tires, to be sent to a waste disposal facility or landfill, thereby improving the environment. In addition, by increasing the use of scrap rubber as a source of energy for steel or metal production, less energy is required from other sources. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20150143951 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR REFINING COPPER CONCENTRATE - The invention relates to a method and to an arrangement for refining copper concentrate ( | 05-28-2015 |
| 20160068928 | SYSTEM APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR LEACHING METAL AND STORING THERMAL ENERGY DURING METAL EXTRACTION - An environmentally friendly (e.g. no acid, base, or cyanide) system and process for large scale extraction of metal ion into aerobic molten salt (or ionic liquid) and the electrodeposition of metal (e.g. copper, gold, silver, etc.) from the metal ion dissolved in the molten salt. The non-volatile low vapor pressure liquid salt is reusable, and heat from the molten slag can heat the molten salts or ionic liquids. Another embodiment comprises a one-pot apparatus for the extraction of metal (e.g. copper) from metal earths and electrodepositing the metal using a low melting (209° C.) aerated Na—K—Zn chloride salt in which copper metal oxidizes and is converted to soluble copper chloride. When an electrical power supply is connected to the graphite vessel (cathode) and to copper rods in the melt (anodes), then the copper chloride is deposited as copper metal by electroreduction on the bottom of the graphite reaction vessel. | 03-10-2016 |
| 075100630 | Producing or treating Iron(Fe) or Iron alloy | 3 |
| 20130098202 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING MOLTEN STEEL USING GRANULAR METALLIC IRON - A process for producing a molten steel (G) is disclosed in which particulate metallic iron can be more efficiently melted. The process includes the step of melting, in an electric arc furnace (2), all charge for iron which comprises: particulate metallic iron (A) produced by a method including a step in which a feed material comprising a carbonaceous reducing material and an iron oxide-containing substance is heated in a rotary hearth furnace (1) as a reducing/melting furnace and the iron oxide contained in the feed material is thereby reduced in the solid state to yield metallic iron and a step in which the resultant metallic iron is heated to a higher temperature to melt the metallic iron and the molten iron is aggregated while separating the iron from the slag (B); and scraps (D) which are another feed material for iron. The process is characterized in that the content of carbon in the particulate metallic iron (A) is regulated to 1.0-4.5 mass % and the carbon in the particulate metallic iron (A) is burned by oxygen blowing. The process is further characterized in that the particulate metallic iron (A) is used in an amount of 40-80 mass % with respect to all charge for iron and that the scraps (D) are initially charged into the electric arc furnace (2) to obtain molten iron (F) and then the particulate metallic iron (A) is continuously charged into the molten iron (F). | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130139647 | PARTIALLY-REDUCED IRON PRODUCING METHOD AND PARTIALLY-REDUCED IRON PRODUCING APPARATUS - A reduction furnace includes a pellet material supplying device forming on a grate an ignition carbon material layer having a predetermined height; an ignition device; and an exhaust gas circulation device supplying an oxygen-containing gas comprising circulated exhaust gas mixed with air, to a packed bed of the pellets heated by a combustion heat of the ignition carbon material layer. A partially-reduced iron is produced by thermally reducing the pellets through a combustion region for the ignition carbon material layer and a heating region, the combustion region formed upstream in a travelling direction of the grate by supplying a gas having a high oxygen concentration, the heating region formed downstream of the combustion region by supplying a gas having a low oxygen concentration. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20150292051 | METHOD FOR REUSING IRON-CONTAINING BY-PRODUCT AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - Provided are a method for reusing an iron-containing by-product and an apparatus configured to use the method. The method include: forming briquettes by mixing an iron-containing by-product with 5 parts by weight to 20 parts by weight of carbon, based on 100 parts by weight of the iron-containing by-product; preliminarily reducing the briquettes within a temperature range of 800° C. to 1300° C.; and supplying the preliminarily reduced briquettes to an electric furnace. The apparatus includes: a reducing furnace in which briquettes formed by mixing an iron-containing by-product with 5 parts by weight to 50 parts by weight of carbon, based on 100 parts by weight of the iron-containing by-product is reduced within a temperature range of 800° C. to 1300° C.; and an electric furnace to which the preliminarily reduced briquettes are supplied. | 10-15-2015 |
