Directly Reduced Iron (Dri) Plant - High Calorific Carbon Recovery, Enhanced Fuel Efficiency & Reduced Maintenance Downtime

Salient Features of DRI Plant :
Sponge Iron is iron ore reduced directly in solid state using coal gas, natural gas or coal as reductants and is also known as Directly Reduced Iron(DRI). The need for development and commercialization of sponge iron manufacturing process arose in late 50's when Electric Arc Furnaces (EAFs) engaged in manufacturing steel started facing problems of availability of scrap of desired quality, the traditional source of their iron metallics. The calorific value of the segregated product will be significantly higher than that of the total DRI ASH, - which is being currently used. The recovered high calorific carbon will greatly reduce fuel requirement. A related saving will be the lower periodicity of the maintenance cycle due to lower ash content. Again it will vary from z place to place. One will immensely gain in down time. Shut downs are very expensive.