Patent ID: 8252212

Claim:
A method for producing inorganic spheroidized particles, comprising a step of producing the inorganic spheroidized particles by means of a diffusion type burner, wherein the burner comprises a first raw material supply path, a fuel supply path, a raw material diffusion chamber, a primary oxygen supply path, a second raw material supply path, a secondary oxygen supply path, and a combustion chamber, a coarse powder is supplied with a carrier gas from first raw material ejection holes of the first raw material supply path provided at the center of the burner to the raw material diffusion chamber provided at the end of the first raw material supply path, a fuel gas is supplied from fuel gas ejection holes of the fuel supply path provided on the outer circumference of the raw material diffusion chamber to the combustion chamber provided at the end of the raw material diffusion chamber in a direction parallel to a central axis of the burner, an oxygen-containing gas is supplied from the primary oxygen supply path through primary oxygen ejection holes that are opened on the side surface of the combustion chamber so as to form rotational flow, a fine powder is supplied with the carrier gas from the second raw material supply path through the second raw material ejection holes that are opened on the side surface of the combustion chamber and formed at the exit side in comparison with the primary oxygen ejection holes in a direction parallel to the central axis of the burner, and an oxygen-containing gas is supplied from the secondary oxygen supply path through the secondary oxygen ejection holes that are opened on the side surface of the combustion chamber and formed at the exit side in comparison with the second raw material ejection holes.