“…Rotary kilns are also used for producing sponge iron or direct reduced iron (Feinman and Mac Rae, 1999), cement (Peray, 1984;Mastorakos et al, 1999;Majumdar et al, 2007), for waste incineration (Marias, 2003;Yang et al, 2003), and for combustion or pyrolysis of coal (Patisson et al, 2000a(Patisson et al, , 2000bLi et al, 2003), maize (Klose and Weist, 1999), etc. Moving packed bed reactors are employed for sintering of iron or zinc ores (Chatterjee et al, 1993;Nakano et al, 2010;Ahn et al, 2013), for induration of iron ore pellets on a moving or traveling grate or strand (Thurlby et al, 1979;Barati, 2008;Sadrnezhaad et al, 2008), and for gasification of coal (Yoon et al, 1979;Hobbs et al, 1992). The blast furnace, a moving bed reactor, is utilized for making hot metal or liquid iron in an integrated steel plant (Omori, 1987;Ueda et al, 2010a).…”