The invention relates to a method for directly reducing
nickel containing
pig iron by lateritic
nickel in a
tunnel kiln, which is finished according to the following steps: firstly, adding
desiccant into the lateritic
nickel which contains adsorbed water, uniformly stirring and mixing for dehydrated
desiccation; secondly, crushing the mixture, adding a
reducing agent and a
pig iron aggregation agent into the mixture, uniformly mixing, delivering the mixture on a
tunnel kiln trolley on which an isolating agent is sprayed, and
coating a layer of
coke powder for carrying out reduction
roasting;and thirdly, after reduction
roasting, water
quenching and cooling, crushing and sorting big iron blocks and small iron
slag, self-milling the big iron blocks and the small iron
slag in an autogenousmill, thereby leading iron containing
pig iron alloy and mineral
slag to completely separate to obtain nickel containing pig iron
alloy. The invention does not use the traditional reduction
jar and has simple production, short reduction time, high yield, convenient operation,
energy consumption reduction, low cost and high
recovery rate of nickel. The produced nickel containing pig iron can be directly used as high quality raw materials for
smelting stainless steel.