The invention discloses a direct reduction process for
sponge iron production implemented by using the non-catalytic conversion of CH4, and the direct reduction process comprises the following steps: feeding a feed gas rich in CH4 and subjected to purification and pressure regulation and a stock gas output by a
shaft furnace and subjected to cooling, dust removal, pressurization and
decarburization into a
tube furnace together and preheating; feeding the preheated
coal gas into a non-catalytic
pure oxygen reforming furnace, performing
combustion reaction and heating on the preheated
coal gas and
oxygen in the non-catalytic
pure oxygen reforming furnace, and performing non-catalytic conversion on the CH4 so as to generate CO+H2; after the high-temperature
coal gas discharged from the non-catalytic
pure oxygen reforming furnace and the stock gas discharged at the front end and subjected to cooling, dust removal, pressurization and
decarburization are mixed and cooled, feeding the
mixed gas into the
shaft furnace and reducing iron ores, thereby producing
sponge irons; and after the stock gas discharged from the
shaft furnace is subjected to cooling, dust removal, pressurization and
decarburization, feeding part of the stock gas and the supplementary feed gas rich in CH4 into the
tube furnace and the non-catalytic pure
oxygen reforming furnace together, wherein the other part of the stock gas is used as the cold-doped
coal gas of the high-temperature
coal gas discharged from the non-catalytic pure
oxygen reforming furnace. Because the preheating temperature is low, no carbon
precipitation occurs, and no strict limitation on the H2S content of the feed gas rich in CH4 exits, so that the bonding of the
sponge irons can be prevented.