Pulverized Coal Injection in a Blast Furnace IspatGuru
Fig 1 Typical flow sheet of pulverized coal injection in blast furnace. The process of coal injection. The PCI process is based on the simple concept of carrying the finely ground (pulverized) dried coal by a conveying gas (normally nitrogen) to the BF where it is distributed to different tuyeres and injected through a lance in the blow pipe.