SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIRECTLY REDUCING IRON ORE TO METALLIC IRON AND FOR PRODUCING STEEL THROUGH ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION AND HYDROGENATION

摘要

A steel production process that can reduce iron-oxide-rich material directly into metallic-iron-rich material by bringing the iron-oxide-rich material to the reduction ignition point through electromagnetic induction. In an embodiment, a specific combination of power and frequency of electromagnetic induction and a hydrogenation process that reduces the iron oxide to metallic iron that can be used to produce steel directly without generating any carbon oxides or contaminating the metallic iron with carbon. This process produces metallic iron without carbon in its composition; in other words, this process produces metallic iron directly from iron ore without intermediate processes.