US PATENT SUBCLASS 75 / 474
.~.~.~.~ Reduction in rotary kiln


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75 /   HD   SPECIALIZED METALLURGICAL PROCESSES, COMPOSITIONS FOR USE THEREIN, CONSOLIDATED METAL POWDER COMPOSITIONS, AND LOOSE METAL PARTICULATE MIXTURES

330  DF  PROCESSES {9}
392  DF  .~ Producing or treating free metal {10}
414  DF  .~.~ At 300 degrees C or greater (e.g., pyrometallurgy, etc.) {7}
433  DF  .~.~.~ Iron(Fe) {18}
474.~.~.~.~ Reduction in rotary kiln {3}
475  DF  .~.~.~.~.~> With melting of Iron(Fe) product {1}
477  DF  .~.~.~.~.~> Introducing solid reductant into rotary kiln {3}
482  DF  .~.~.~.~.~> With generation of gaseous reductant outside rotary kiln


DEFINITION

Classification: 75/474

Reduction in rotary kiln:

(under subclass 433) Process wherein a reducible Iron (Fe) compound is reduced to metallic Iron in an approximately cylindrical vessel rotating on its axis. The axis is horizontal or inclined less than 45 degrees from horizontal. The vessel rotates in only one direction through an angle of over 360 degrees during the reduction and rotates substantially continuously.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

484, for reduction in an apparatus which does not rotate over 360 degrees or oscillates back and forth during the reduction.