The invention discloses a reducing-melting method for making iron containing
coal balls, comprising steps of mixing iron powdered ores,
coal dust and binder in certain proportion, and pressing the mixture into
coal balls containing iron with a ball press; baking and
drying the prepared coal balls containing iron at high temperature, and then reducing to generate
metal balls containing iron; thermally filling the reduced
metal balls containing iron into a melting reducing furnace, at the same time, filling cokes and fusing agent, so as to reduce and melt the
metal balls in the melting reducing furnace into liquid
scrap iron which is discharged out from an iron port. The invention is characterized in that: ball making,
drying, reducing and melting in the furnace at high temperature are integrated; as the coal balls are directly filled in the melting reducing furnace thermally, energy utilization is improved,
energy consumption is reduced, the metal balls are prevented from expanding in the furnace at high temperature, only metal balls are generated during reducing period, the probability of having bonding and of plugging pipelines is greatly reduced, thus
utilization rate of equipment is improved.