Development of energy conservations scenarios for sponge iron industry ...
Coal based sponge iron plant: a conventional process. The process flow diagram of conventional coalbased sponge iron plant is shown in Fig. 1. The operating data shown in Fig. 1 is taken from a typical Indian sponge iron plant. In the conventional process kiln feed, which consists of iron ore, feed coal, and dolomite, is fed to the rotary kiln.