The invention discloses equipment and a process using
methanol splitting
decomposition to produce
direct reduced iron and belongs to the technical field of production equipment and the process of reduced iron. The equipment and the process are used for using
methanol splitting
decomposition to produce the
direct reduced iron. According to the technical scheme, a gas based reduced vertical furnace is the main body of the equipment, and the gas based reduced vertical furnace comprises a lifting
machine, a material storehouse, a
tail gas separating storehouse, a reduction
pipe, a spiral material conveying mechanism, a
methanol splitting
decomposition pipe, gas combustors, a methanol heat exchanging box body, a
hydrogen heat exchanging box body and a cooling tank.
Methanol enters the methanol splitting decomposition
pipe through a methanol
vaporizer and the methanol heat exchanging box body; the reduced iron is used as a catalyst to achieve complete splitting decomposition, and then reducing agents including
carbon monoxide and
hydrogen are produced; the methanol and the
nitrogen, slight
methane and
carbon monoxide constitute an adjustable
carburizing atmosphere to product high-carbon reduced iron; and meanwhile, near
zero emission of
carbon dioxide is achieved. The methanol is used as the
raw material of the gas based reduced vertical furnace to produce the high-carbon reduced iron, the combination of
coal chemical industry and the
direct reduced iron is achieved, so that a new path for replacing
natural gas to produce the high-carbon reduced iron is developed.