Patent ID: 7993428

Claim:
A method for manufacturing molten iron comprising charging a carbonaceous material, a flux, and solid reduced iron obtained by thermally reducing carbon composite iron oxide agglomerates into an arc melting furnace and melting the solid reduced iron using arc heating in the melting furnace while an inert gas is blown into a molten iron layer contained in the melting furnace from a bottom blowing tuyere disposed on a bottom of the melting furnace to stir the molten iron layer, wherein the carbonaceous material is charged so that a carbonaceous material suspending slag layer in which the carbonaceous material is suspended is formed in an upper portion of a slag layer formed on the molten iron layer by slag produced when the solid reduced iron is melted into the molten iron and so that a carbonaceous material coating layer composed of only the carbonaceous material is further formed on the carbonaceous material suspending slag layer, and the molten iron and the slag stored in the melting furnace are tapped from a tap hole formed in a lower portion of a furnace wall of the melting furnace.