The research was started with the selection of coal, preparation of slurry and the fundamental pipeline flow tests. According to the results thereof, a slurry injection system having a capacity of 85 tons per day was erected. Slurry began to be injected through the ten tuyeres of Muroran No. 1 blast furnace from February 1963. Since then, the slurry density has been increased to 50 wt% coal fines and a considerable coke saving was made. Comparative tests, carried out between fuel oil and slurry, showed that there were no noticeable differences between them with respect to the output and the coke rate.
SynopsisTo clarify the behavior of fuel sulphur in blast furnaces. fuel oils with different sulphur cOlltents and benzelle or benzyl mercaptan with radioisotope 35 5 were illjected into three blast furnaces with inner volumes of 1 249Ill", 1 407 m 3 , and 1409 m 3 • Samples for chemical analysis were taken jimn IJig iron, slag. dust, and gases during experimental operation. The radioactive sullJhur in the samples was precipitated as barium sulphate and the radioactivity was determined by a low background counter.Experimental results are as follows:(1) Specific radioactivity of IJig iron and slag became constant in lIine to tell hours after the start qf filel oil iluection with the radioactive sullJlwr.(2) Th e behavior of jile! oil sullJllllr in thefumaces war lillie affected by the sulphur cOlltellt in theIllel oils, the quantity oI Iuel oil hUectioll. alld other olJeratillg conditinns.(3) The desullJllllrization rale offilel oil is slight(y bigger lhall the mean desullJlllIrizatioll rate q( all other blast furnace burdfll. The ralio of Ihe distribution ratio (5)/[5] Ior filel oil to that for other blast furnace burden was a/J/Jroxilllately 1.2.(4) If the ratio oI/lwl oil sul/Jh ur to the tolal .fIlllJh ur in the burdell increased, Ihe qualltily of sullJlm r ill /Jig iroll originated in the file! oil /Jroportionally increased.Thus, in ordn to keelJ the SIlI/Jllllr cOlllent of IJig iroll wilhin a certain vallie, it is necessary to use filel oil oI lower sulphur colltellt or tq rP"'ricl Ihe quantity of filel oil ilUected.
The Wanishi-machi No. 3 Blast Furnace (Nominal capaeity 225t/day, hearth diameter 4.3m, inner volume 356m3) is the smallest of the kind now operating in Japan. But the blower used for this furnace has a large capacity enough for 500t/day operation. Therefore several countermeasures to the furnace operation were taken according to the change of conditions during the period since its blow-in of June 1948, and we have got various interesting results. 1. Common Blast Operation.
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