WO2022270194A1 - 還元鉄の製造方法 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method for producing reduced iron.
- the raw material of iron is mainly iron oxide, and a reduction process to reduce this iron oxide is essential.
- the most popular and common reduction process worldwide is the blast furnace.
- coke or pulverized coal reacts with oxygen in hot air (air heated to about 1200 ° C) at the tuyere to generate CO and H2 gas ( reducing gas), and these reducing gases cause of iron ore, etc.
- the reducing agent ratio (the amount of coke and pulverized coal used per 1 ton of molten iron) has been reduced to about 500 kg/t.
- a vertical reduction furnace is filled with agglomerated iron ore such as sintered ore and pellets as iron oxide raw materials, and a reducing gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide is blown into the furnace.
- a method of producing reduced iron by reducing an iron oxide raw material is also often used.
- natural gas or the like is used as the raw material gas for the reducing gas.
- the raw material gas is heated and reformed in the thermal reformer together with the furnace top gas discharged from the furnace top of the reducing furnace to generate a reducing gas.
- the generated reducing gas is blown into the reducing furnace and reacts with the iron oxide raw material supplied from the upper part of the reducing furnace, whereby the iron oxide is reduced to become reduced iron.
- the produced reduced iron is cooled in a region below the position where the reducing gas is blown into the reducing furnace, and then discharged from the lower portion of the reducing furnace.
- the gas after the reduction of iron oxide is discharged from the top of the reducing furnace as furnace top gas, and after dust collection and cooling, a part of it is sent to the thermal reformer as a raw material of reformed gas. .
- the remaining furnace top gas is used as fuel gas for the heating/thermal reforming device.
- the remaining top gas used as fuel gas for the heating/thermal reforming device is generally discharged outside the system.
- Patent Document 1 exhaust gas from a reducing furnace and natural gas are reformed in a reformer to generate a reducing gas mainly composed of CO and H gas, and this reduction It describes that gas is blown into a reducing furnace to reduce iron oxide in the reducing furnace to produce reduced iron.
- Patent Document 2 describes a method of producing reduced iron by reforming coke oven gas and top gas of a reducing furnace from which CO 2 has been removed to produce reducing gas and blowing it into the reducing furnace. ing.
- JP 2017-88912 A Japanese Patent Publication No. 2016-529384
- Patent Document 2 is to produce reducing gas using coke oven gas or converter gas generated in a steelworks.
- coke oven gas and converter gas are indispensable as fuel gas for downstream processes such as heating furnaces and annealing furnaces in integrated steelworks, if they are diverted to the reduced iron manufacturing process, fuel gas will be insufficient in downstream processes. will cause As a result, in the end, natural gas was supplied externally to compensate for the shortage of gas in the downstream process, and the reduction of CO2 emissions was not realized and remained as an issue.
- the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned current situation, and an object of the present invention is to propose a method that enables realization of energy saving and reduction of CO2 emissions when producing reduced iron from iron oxide. do.
- the present inventors conducted an iron oxide filling process for filling iron oxide into the reducing furnace, and a reducing gas blowing process for blowing reducing gas into the reducing furnace.
- a reduction step of reducing iron oxide with a reducing gas in a reducing furnace a methane synthesis step of synthesizing methane from a portion of the top gas discharged from the top of the reducing furnace and hydrogen gas;
- a system having a gas reforming step of heating the furnace top gas, excluding the portion supplied to the methane synthesis step, as the raw material gas and reforming it into the reducing gas was developed. In this system, the furnace top gas is circulated and reused.
- the material balance in this system must be sound, that is, the composition ratio (volume ratio) of H2 and CO in the reducing gas supplied into the reduction furnace It is required to balance the gases in the above system so that the H 2 /CO is always maintained at a predetermined setpoint without fluctuations.
- the present inventors have diligently investigated how to keep the material balance sound in the above-described system, and found that the methane synthesis process and the gas reforming process change according to the compositional fluctuation of the reducing gas blown into the reduction furnace.
- the present inventors have newly discovered that it is important to properly maintain the gas balance between them, and have completed the present invention.
- the gist of the present invention is as follows. 1. An iron oxide filling step of filling the reducing furnace with iron oxide; a reducing gas blowing step of blowing a reducing gas into the reducing furnace; a reducing step of reducing the iron oxide with the reducing gas in the reducing furnace; a methane synthesis step of synthesizing a gas containing methane as a main component from a portion of the top gas discharged from the top of the reducing furnace and hydrogen gas; a gas reforming step of heating the methane gas and the furnace top gas excluding the portion supplied to the methane synthesis step as a raw material gas and reforming the raw material gas into the reducing gas; A method for producing reduced iron having In the reducing gas blown into the reduction furnace, the furnace top gas amount V 1 supplied to the methane synthesis process and the furnace top supply to the gas reforming process are changed according to the variation of the ratio H 2 /CO of H 2 and CO. A method for producing reduced iron, wherein the amount of water
- a, b and c are arbitrary values determined by the operating conditions of the reducing furnace.
- CO2 - free hydrogen is supplied to the top gas of the reducing furnace from the outside to synthesize regenerated methane, and the regenerated methane is used to produce reducing gas, thereby recycling and reusing the top gas.
- the method for producing reduced iron having a closed system it is possible to stably realize operation under a sound material balance.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the relationship between the water vapor amount Vw and the top gas amount V1 for synthesizing methane, which is adjusted when the composition of the reducing gas fluctuates.
- FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the experimental results of investigating the relationship between the percentage X of the steam amount Vw used in the reforming process with respect to the top gas amount Vt and the percentage Y of the gas amount V1 used for methane gas synthesis with respect to the top gas amount Vt. be.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a reduced iron production process using a conventional shaft-type reducing furnace.
- reference numeral 1 is a reducing furnace
- 1a is iron oxide
- 1b is reduced iron
- 2 is a furnace top gas discharged from the reducing furnace
- 3 is a dust remover for the furnace top gas
- 4 is a dehydrator
- 5 is a dehydrator.
- Natural gas supplied from the outside, 6 is air
- 7 is a heating reformer that heats or thermally reforms the furnace top gas 2 and air 6 into reducing gas 8 containing carbon monoxide gas and hydrogen gas
- 9 is It is a reducing gas blowing device for supplying reducing gas to the reducing furnace 1 .
- a lump iron oxide raw material 1a such as sintered ore or pellets is charged from the upper portion of the reducing furnace 1, which is the center of the reduced iron manufacturing process, and is gradually lowered.
- a high-temperature reducing gas 8 is blown into the furnace from the middle to reduce the iron oxide raw material 1a, and the reduced iron 1b is discharged from the bottom of the furnace.
- a furnace top gas 8 mainly containing CO, CO 2 , H 2 and H 2 O is discharged from the upper part of the furnace.
- This furnace top gas 8 is dust-removed by the dust remover 3 , and part of it is sent to the thermal reformer 7 as raw material gas after adjusting the moisture content.
- a hydrocarbon-containing gas such as natural gas 5 is supplied together with the above-described moisture-adjusted furnace top gas 2 and heated.
- a reforming reaction takes place in the thermal reformer 7 to produce a high-temperature reducing gas 8 mainly containing CO and H 2 gas, which is blown into the reduction furnace 1 .
- the remaining portion of the furnace top gas 2 is used as heating fuel in the combustion chamber of the thermal reformer 7 after dehydration.
- hydrogen gas 10 supplied from the outside and gases containing CO, CO2 , and hydrocarbons are used as raw materials for methane synthesis in the methane synthesizing device 11.
- the gas containing CO, CO 2 , and hydrocarbons may be any gas that is available in the steelworks.
- the part used for heating the thermal reforming device 7 in FIG. By changing the flow of the furnace top gas 2 in this system, the thermal reformer 7 can synthesize the necessary amount of regenerated methane.
- an external CO2 - free heat source for example, an external heat source using CO2 - free electric power may be substituted. In this method, if CO 2 -free electric power is used for heating the thermal reforming device 7 and producing hydrogen, CO 2 emissions can be reduced to zero in principle.
- the regenerated methane synthesized in the methane synthesis device 11 is dehydrated, then mixed with the top gas 2 that has undergone dust removal and partial dehydration, and is supplied to the thermal reformer 7.
- the thermal reformer 7 mainly H 2 and CO, and is blown into the reduction furnace 1 as reducing gas 8 to produce reduced iron.
- the methane synthesis By maintaining a gas balance between the process and said gas reforming process, the fluctuations in the composition of the reducing gas (ratio H2/CO) are immediately suppressed. That is, as described above, the composition of the top gas discharged from the top of the reducing furnace fluctuates, for example, when the grade of the raw iron oxide fluctuates.
- the ratio of dividing the furnace top gas after dust removal into the raw material gas and the gas for methane synthesis is the amount of gas required to generate the reducing gas in the subsequent gas reforming process, that is, the amount of gas sent to the gas reforming process. Since the amount of regenerated methane gas and the amount of water vapor in the furnace top gas vary depending on the amount of regenerated methane gas, it is necessary to estimate the amount of gas in each process so as to satisfy the material balance described above.
- the top gas amount V1 supplied to the methane synthesis process and the top gas amount V1 supplied to the gas reforming process are adjusted according to the variation of the ratio H 2 /CO in the reducing gas blown into the reducing furnace.
- the amount of water vapor Vw in the gas reduced iron is produced under the sound material balance described above.
- H 2 and CO in the reducing gas blown into the reducing furnace are synthesized by the reaction of CH 4 with CO 2 and H 2 O in the thermal reformer 7 before the reducing furnace 1 shown in FIG. be.
- Each reaction is represented by the following equations (i) and (ii).
- the reforming raw material gases are CH4 , CO2 and H2O .
- the amount of H 2 O supplied to the thermal reformer can be adjusted by condensing and removing it by cooling the gas or by adding H 2 O itself to the gas.
- CH4 is synthesized by supplying part of the top gas discharged from the reduction furnace to the methane synthesis unit. From the above formula (ii), it can be seen that if the amount Vw [Nm 3 /t] of water vapor (H 2 O) supplied to the thermal reformer increases, the amount of CH 4 to be reacted with H 2 O also needs to be increased. . In order to increase the amount of CH 4 , it is necessary to increase the top gas amount V 1 [Nm 3 /t] supplied from the top gas discharged from the reduction furnace to the methane synthesis apparatus. and V1 are in a positive relationship.
- the amount of CH 4 generated decreases, for example, due to a decrease in the reaction rate of the methane synthesizer. If the operation is continued in this state, the amount of CH4 supplied to the thermal reformer will also decrease, so the amount of CO in the reducing gas will also decrease. As a result, the ratio of H2 to H2 and C in the reducing gas ( H2 ratio) increases. As described above, the composition ratio (volume ratio) H 2 /CO of H 2 and CO in the reducing gas blown into the reducing furnace must be kept constant, so the H 2 ratio must be reduced.
- the amount of reducing gas supplied to the reducing furnace will fluctuate.
- the reduction in the amount of reducing gas is too large, it will lead to a decrease in the production volume and the quality of the product.
- the increase in the amount of reducing gas is too large, the gas flow resistance in the furnace will increase, and the raw materials (pellets) in the furnace will not descend.
- the proper flow rate of the reducing gas was 1500 Nm 3 /t or more and 3500 Nm 3 /t or less.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the relationship between Vw and V1 in this process, with Vw on the horizontal axis and V1 on the vertical axis. As described above, when Vw turns to increase, a large amount of H 2 is generated by the reaction described in the above formula ( ii ).
- the amount of V1 increases due to the need to increase the amount of CO generated by the reaction indicated by i). That is, the ratio of the increment ⁇ V1 of the methane synthesis gas to the increment ⁇ Vw of the water vapor amount becomes steep.
- the water vapor amount Vw turns to decrease, the generation of a large amount of H 2 according to the reaction shown in the above formula (ii) is suppressed, so the amount of CO required to maintain the predetermined ratio H 2 /CO is large. No change. Therefore, the ratio of the increment ⁇ V1 of the methane synthesis gas to the increment ⁇ Vw of the water vapor amount becomes slow. That is, since the amount of change (differential value) in the relationship between Vw and V1 varies depending on the value of Vw, it was expected that the relationship between Vw and V1 would be represented by a nonlinear function.
- the inventors performed numerical calculations of the mass balance in the process in order to identify the non - linear function representing the relationship between Vw and V1.
- the calculation of the material balance was simulated using commercially available software. After calculating the composition in the top gas by setting the blast gas flow rate and the ratio H 2 /CO in the blast gas flow rate, the steam amount Vw supplied from the top gas to the thermal reformer was arbitrarily determined.
- the amount of methane synthesized in the methane synthesizer and the amount of CO and H2 synthesized in the thermal reformer are calculated, respectively, and the ratio H 2 / CO composition in the reducing gas obtained from these results is the initial Calculations were performed by successively changing the supplied water vapor amount Vw so as to be equal to the set value of , and calculations were performed until the ratio H 2 /CO obtained by this calculation became equal to the set ratio H 2 / CO.
- the increment ⁇ V1 of the methane synthesis gas with respect to the increment ⁇ Vw of the water vapor amount is steep or slow depending on the range of the water vapor amount Vw as shown in FIG. presumed to indicate a value. Therefore, the ratio of the increment ⁇ V1 of the methane synthesizing gas to the increment ⁇ Vw of the amount of water vapor, that is, the differential value, becomes a positive value as follows. dV1 /dVw>0
- Table 1 shows the above calculation results when the reducing gas flow rate is 2200 Nm 3 /t and 0.5 ⁇ H 2 /CO ⁇ 4.
- the percentage (Vw/Vt ⁇ 100) of the water vapor amount Vw to the top gas amount Vt [Nm 3 /t] is X
- the top gas amount Vt [Nm 3 /t] is FIG. 4 shows the result of organizing the percentage of the top gas amount V1 for methane synthesis (V1/Vt ⁇ 100) as Y.
- the operating range in this process is expressed as a quadratic function of X, where X is the percentage (Vw/Vt ⁇ 100) of the water vapor amount Vw to the top gas amount Vt [Nm 3 /t]. It is estimated to be.
- X is the percentage (Vw/Vt ⁇ 100) of the water vapor amount Vw to the top gas amount Vt [Nm 3 /t]. It is estimated to be.
- the result of having fitted the operating range of FIG. 4 as a quadratic function of X is shown.
- a suitable operating range in this process is specified using the following formula (1).
- a, b and c are arbitrary values determined by the operating conditions of the reducing furnace.
- the values a, b, and c appropriate for operation under the conditions of a reducing gas temperature of 600° C. to 1200° C. and an amount of blown reducing gas of 1500 Nm 3 /t to 3500 Nm 3 /t are as follows. 0.002 ⁇ a ⁇ 0.038 2.6 ⁇ b ⁇ 3.3 10 ⁇ c ⁇ 34
- the top gas supplied to the thermal reformer for the steam (H 2 O) amount Vw in the operation A suitable range for the quantity V1 is given. By adjusting Vw and V1 under this appropriate range, it becomes possible to operate reduced iron production with a sound material balance in a closed circulation system.
- this process was operated under the conditions that the blowing amount of the reducing gas was 2200 Nm 3 /t and the composition ratio (volume ratio) H 2 /CO in the reducing gas was 2.0.
- the grade of the agglomerate charged into the reducing furnace decreased, the value of the ratio H2/CO in the reducing gas increased to 2.2 , ie the H2 ratio increased.
- the attained reduction rate of the product decreased from 91% at the beginning of operation to 89%.
- the amount of steam Vw introduced into the thermal reformer was reduced from 374 Nm 3 /t immediately before to 355 Nm 3 /t. It became possible to maintain the operation with the set value of the ratio H 2 /CO set at 2.0. In addition, the final reduction rate of the product was able to be returned to 91% of the initial operation.
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さて、鉄の原料は主に酸化鉄であり、この酸化鉄を還元する、還元プロセスが必須となる。世界的に最も普及している、一般的な還元プロセスは高炉である。この高炉では、羽口においてコークスや微粉炭と熱風(1200℃程度に加熱した空気)中の酸素が反応し、COおよびH2ガス(還元ガス)を生成させて、これらの還元ガスにより炉中の鉄鉱石等の還元を行っている。近年の高炉操業技術の向上により、還元材比(溶銑1t製造あたりのコークス、微粉炭の使用量)は500kg/t程度まで低減したが、還元材比はすでにほぼ下限に達しており、これ以上の大幅な還元材比の低減は期待できない。
1.酸化鉄を還元炉へ充填する酸化鉄充填工程と、
前記還元炉へ還元ガスを吹込む還元ガス吹込み工程と、
前記還元炉内で前記還元ガスにより前記酸化鉄を還元する還元工程と、
前記還元炉の炉頂から排出される炉頂ガスの一部と水素ガスとからメタンを主成分とするガスを合成するメタン合成工程と、
前記メタンガスおよび前記メタン合成工程への供給分を除く炉頂ガスを原料ガスとして、該原料ガスを加熱して前記還元ガスに改質するガス改質工程と、
を有する還元鉄の製造方法であって、
前記還元炉内に吹き込む還元ガスにおける、H2およびCOの比H2/COの変動に応じて、前記メタン合成工程に供給する炉頂ガス量V1と前記ガス改質工程に供給する炉頂ガス中の水蒸気量Vwとを調整して前記酸化鉄の充填工程から前記還元工程に至るプロセスにおける物質収支を制御する、還元鉄の製造方法。
aX2+bX+c≦Y≦100 …(1)
但し、a、bおよびcは、還元炉の操業条件によって定まる任意の値である。
すなわち、図1は、従前のシャフト型還元炉による還元鉄製造プロセスの構成を示す図である。図1において、符号1は還元炉、1aは酸化鉄、1bは還元鉄、2は還元炉1から排出される炉頂ガス、3は炉頂ガス2に対する除塵装置、4は脱水装置、5は外部から供給される天然ガス、6は空気、7は炉頂ガス2と空気6を加熱または加熱改質して一酸化炭素ガスおよび水素ガスを含む還元ガス8とする加熱改質装置、9は還元炉1へ還元ガスを供給する還元ガス吹込み装置である。
以上の図1に示した従前のプロセスに対して、本発明では、図2に示すように、上記天然ガス5等の外部から供給される炭化水素ガスの代わりに、プロセス内でメタン合成の反応器にて生成した再生メタンを用いる。すなわち、図2に示す還元鉄製造プロセスの構成では、新たに炉頂ガス2と水素10とからメタンを合成するメタン合成装置11を設けている。このメタン合成装置11で生成した再生メタンを加熱改質装置7に供給し、還元ガス8の原料ガスとする。
CH4+ CO2 → 2CO+2H2 … (i)
CH4+H2O → CO + 3H2 … (ii)
式(i)および(ii)から改質の原料となるガスはCH4とCO2およびH2Oであることがわかる。これらのうち、H2Oはガスの冷却による凝縮除去またはH2O自体をガスに添加することにより、加熱改質装置に供給する量を調整することが可能である。一方、CH4は還元炉から排出される炉頂ガスの一部をメタン合成装置に供給することで合成される。上記式(ii)から、加熱改質装置に供給する水蒸気(H2O)量Vw[Nm3/t]が増えれば、H2Oと反応させるCH4の量も増やす必要のあることがわかる。そして、CH4の量を増やすためには、還元炉から排出される炉頂ガスからメタン合成装置に供給される炉頂ガス量V1[Nm3/t]を増やす必要があり、従って、VwとV1は正の関係にある。
以上の不利を回避する適正還元ガス量について発明者が調査した結果、還元ガスの適正な流量は、1500Nm3/t以上3500Nm3/t以下であった。
まず、以上で述べた、還元ガスの組成が変動した際に調整を行う、水蒸気量Vwとメタン合成用の炉頂ガス量V1の関係について、図3を用いて説明する。図3は本プロセスにおいて、横軸にVwを、縦軸にV1を取った際のVwとV1の関係を表す模式図である。先に記したように、Vwが増加に転じた場合、上記した式(ii)に記す反応によりH2が多量に発生するため、還元ガスの比H2/COを保つには上記した式(i)で示される反応により発生するCOの量を増やす必要があるため、V1の量が増加する。つまり、水蒸気量の増分ΔVwに対するメタン合成用ガスの増分ΔV1の比は急峻となる。一方、水蒸気量Vwが減少に転じた場合、上記した式(ii)に示す反応に従う多量のH2の発生は抑制されるため、所定の比H2/COの維持に必要なCO量の大きな変動は伴わない。したがって、水蒸気量の増分ΔVwに対するメタン合成用ガスの増分ΔV1の比は緩慢となる。すなわち、VwとV1の関係の変化量(微分値)はVwの値によって変化することから、VwとV1の関係は非線形的な関数を以て表されることが予想された。
dV1/dVw >0
dV1/dVw = dY/dX > 0
dY/dX = αX+β(α>0、β>0)
∫(dY/dX)dX =∫(αX+β)dX
Y-Y0 =α/2X2+βX+γ
Y=aX2+bX+c (a、b、cは正の定数)
aX2+bX+c≦Y≦100 …(1)
式中、a、bおよびcは、還元炉の操業条件によって定まる任意の値である。
0.002≦a≦0.038
2.6≦b≦3.3
10≦c≦34
図2に示すところに従って、還元ガスの吹込み量が2200Nm3/t、還元ガス中の組成比(体積比)H2/COの値が2.0の条件で本プロセスの運転を行った。この条件における定常操業時の炉頂ガス中のガス組成(体積)はH2:CO:CO2:H2O=48:30:9:14であった。還元炉に装入される塊成鉱の品位が低下したところ、還元ガス中の比H2/COの値が2.2に上昇し、すなわちH2比率が増加した。また、成品の到達還元率も操業当初の91%から89%まで低下した。そのため、比H2/COの値を2.0に戻すために、加熱改質装置中に投入する水蒸気量Vwを直前の374Nm3/tから355Nm3/tに減じたところ、還元ガス組成が設定値である比H2/COの値が2.0の状態のまま操業を維持することが可能となった。また、成品の到達還元率も操業当初の91%に戻すことができた。
1a 酸化鉄
1b 還元鉄
2 炉頂ガス
3 除塵装置
4 脱水装置
5 天然ガス
6 空気
7 加熱改質装置
8 還元ガス
9 還元ガス吹込み装置
10 水素
11 メタン合成装置
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- 酸化鉄を還元炉へ充填する酸化鉄充填工程と、
前記還元炉へ還元ガスを吹込む還元ガス吹込み工程と、
前記還元炉内で前記還元ガスにより前記酸化鉄を還元する還元工程と、
前記還元炉の炉頂から排出される炉頂ガスの一部と水素ガスとからメタンを主成分とするガスを合成するメタン合成工程と、
前記メタンガスおよび前記メタン合成工程への供給分を除く炉頂ガスを原料ガスとして、該原料ガスを加熱して前記還元ガスに改質するガス改質工程と、
を有する還元鉄の製造方法であって、
前記還元炉内に吹き込む還元ガスにおける、H2およびCOの比H2/COの変動に応じて、前記メタン合成工程に供給する炉頂ガス量V1と前記ガス改質工程に供給する炉頂ガス中の水蒸気量Vwとを調整して前記酸化鉄の充填工程から前記還元工程に至るプロセスにおける物質収支を制御する、還元鉄の製造方法。 - 前記比H2/COの変動が前記比H2/COの値の増加である場合は、前記水蒸気量Vwと前記炉頂ガス量V1を減少させる、請求項1に記載の還元鉄の製造方法。
- 前記比H2/COの変動が前記比H2/COの値の減少である場合は、前記水蒸気量Vwと前記炉頂ガス量V1を増加させる、請求項1に記載の還元鉄の製造方法。
- 前記炉頂ガスの発生量Vtに対する、前記メタン合成工程に供給する炉頂ガス量V1の比X(百分率)および、前記炉頂ガスの発生量Vtに対する、前記ガス改質工程に供給する前記原料ガス中の水蒸気量Vwの比Y(百分率)が、下記の式(1)を満足する、請求項1から3のいずれかに記載の還元鉄の製造方法。
aX2+bX+c≦Y≦100 …(1)
但し、a、bおよびcは、還元炉の操業条件によって定まる任意の値である。
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