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    • 27. 发明申请
    • Triple chamber furnace for scrap segregation and melting
    • US20200056259A1
    • 2020-02-20
    • US15999007
    • 2018-08-20
    • Baha Elsayed Abulnaga
    • Baha Elsayed Abulnaga
    • C22B1/00F27B17/00F23G5/027
    • The invention is a continuation of U.S. Pat. No. 9,617,610 issued on Apr. 11, 2017. It consists of a process to treat comingled and co-mixed ferrous and non-ferrous scrap by heat from flue gases generated in the hearth of the furnace, charging and melting the treated ferrous scrap after removing contaminants and non-ferrous elements of the scrap through a three step process in a triple chamber furnace (FIGS. 1 and 4). The furnace consists of a first chamber (4) where the scrap is loaded, and treated in an oxygen deficient flue gas atmosphere downstream of a heat recuperator (3), at high temperature to cause the peeling and melting of zinc from galvanized scrap, the melting of non-ferrous components of the scrap and their collection at the bottom of the chamber at a dedicated spout (23) to a crucible (24), the pyrolysis of paints, plastic and used tire contaminants of the scrap. Upstream of the recuperator flue gas from the second stage, or charging and melting chamber (2) rise to exchange heat in the recuperator (3) and pre-heat combustion air on its way to the primary burner of the furnace (11). Ferrous scrap after being separated from non ferrous elements is charged into the second stage or charging and melting chamber (2); the chamber having a floor sloped at an angle less than the angle of repose of steel in a solid form, so that the molten iron and steel can flow to the third stage or hearth (1) where carbon is added at the carburizer (5), alloying elements at the charging spout (6) and oxygen carrying gases, gaseous, liquid and pulverized solid fuel are applied at the burner (11) to complete the refining of the scrap and their discharge for castings. To achieve the pyrolysis needed to eliminate coating, paint, rubber tires, plastic scrap, the combustion in the hearth is completed at stoichometric ratio to deplete the flue gases from oxygen. Flue gases on the discharge of the triple chamber Cokeless furnace are treated by conventional methods to extract dust, condense and separate hydrocarbons that resulted from the pyrolysis in the scrap in the treatment chamber prior to discharge to the environment (27). Condensed hydrocarbons are burned in the hearth (1) for additional heat. Non-ferrous molten metals collected in a crucible or channel furnace (24) are further processed outside the triple chamber furnace. In a different embodiment of the invention, containers full of scrap tires, scrap plastics and non-ferrous scrap (34) are charged closed in the scrap processing chamber, heated externally by flue gases and the containers vented directly to auxiliary burners (36) at the hearth without passing through a condenser or flue gas treatment unit.