A method of using nickeliferous
laterite to reduce ferronickel directly in
tunnel kiln relates to a method of reducing ferronickel. Comparing with high furnace
smelting ferronickel and electric furnace
smelting ferronickel having problems such as great invest, high manufacturing cost and produced ferronickel with
high carbon content, the method of the invention is finished as: selecting nickeliferous
laterite as material, the nickeliferous
laterite contains 0.75-2.60% by weight of
nickel, 8.00-55.0% by weght of iron; adding weight ratio of nickeliferous laterite and reductant as 1.00:0.25-0.55 into reducing pot, then putting the reducing pot in
tunnel kiln, through preheating and stoving, heating reducing, cooling, taking off to get qualified reduced directly nickeliferous laterite. The invention selects natural nickeliferous laterite as material to reduce nickeliferous laterite, having advantages such as technology which easy to control, simple operation,
low dissipation of energy, environment protection without
pollution, low manufacturing cost, low installion cost and produced ferronickel with low carbon content.