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this process is used for sponge iron plant

in sponge iron they extract the oxygen 4 iron ore like hematite/magnatite

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Since 1969, Midrex and its partners have built (or are constructing) 72 MIDREX® Modules (shaft furnaces plus

reformers and associated systems) in 21 countries. To date, these facilities have produced 590 million tons (Mt) of

DRI and HBI. This record of plant sales, successful start-ups, and continued outstanding performance has resulted in

a market share for MIDREX® Technology of 50 percent or more each year since 1984.

The success of the MIDREX® Direct Reduction Process is based on the firm foundation of the work done by Donald

Beggs and his colleagues in the Surface Combustion Division of the Midland-Ross Corporation in the 1960s. Beggs'

concept of pairing a stoichiometric CO2 reformer with a shaft furnace to reduce iron oxide was brilliant, a once-in-alifetime

achievement. The MIDREX Process concept has stood the test of time and produced 40 million tons of iron

in 2008, trailing only the blast furnace.

MIDREX direct reduction ironmaking (hereinafter

referred to as the MIDREX process) reduces iron

ore using natural gas. The original process was

developed by the Midland-Ross Co., which later

became MIDREX Technologies, Inc. (hereinafter

referred to as MIDREX Technologies), a wholly

owned subsidary of Kobe Steel. A pilot plant was

built in Toledo, Ohio in 1967. The first commercial

plant, having a production capacity of 150 thousand

tonnes/year, was built in Portland, Oregon, in 1969.

The process was immature in 1978, when Kobe

Steel began the construction of a plant with a

production capacity of 400 thousand tonnes/year in

the State of Qatar. Kobe Steel significantly modified

the design, exploiting the company's technologies

developed through blast furnace operation, and

stabilized the then new process. On the other hand,

MIDREX Technologies also carried out various

improvements to the plants they built in various

countries. These were all integrated in the early

1980s, making the process nearly complete 1).

The maximum production capacity in 1984, when

Kobe Steel became affiliated with MIDREX

Technologies, was 600 thousand tonnes/year. Later

improvements, made by Kobe Steel in collaboration

with MIDREX Technologies, have dramatically

increased the production capacity. In 2007, the scale

reached 1.8 million tonnes/year, which is comparable

to that of a small blast furnace.

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