Natural gas can replace coke smelting pig iron
Coke at high temperature (also some blast furnace pulverized coal, heavy oil, natural gas and other auxiliary fuel) in carbon with bubbling air oxygen in the combustion of carbon monoxide and hydrogen generated in the furnace, removing the rise in iron ore in the process of oxygen, thereby reducing iron. The molten iron is released from the taphole. An iron ore, which is a mixture of non - reducing impurities, such as limestone, to form a slag from the slag. The produced gas is discharged from the top of the furnace, and is used as a fuel for a hot blast stove, a heating furnace, a coke oven, a boiler, etc.. Blast furnace smelting is the main product of pig iron, as well as by-products of blast furnace slag and blast furnace gas.
No, it's not just the temperature. It takes the chemical reaction of carbon and iron oxide to produce iron.Chemical equation: C+Fe 3O4 - Fe+CO2
No, because the coke in the blast furnace to heat, reducing agent, skeleton and carbon supply four functions
