The ferric burden (FB) used to produce the pig iron, comprised of sinter, pellets and coarse iron ore, has the following chemical composition: 80% Fe 2 O 3, 10% CaO, 9% SiO 2, and 1% of other oxides. The coke (C) used in the process has the following composition: 90% C, 6% SiO 2, 1% CaO, and 2% of other oxides.
Impact of Biopellet on Sintering Temperature Profiles. Figure 3 shows the temperature profile observed during iron ore sintering process at different proportions of biopellet. With an increase in biopellet the maximum temperature within the sinter bed reduces. In the presence of biomass, the water content required to granulate the sinter raw mix to a moisture levels of 8% increased from 8 ...
Superhigh bed sintering process is an important development direction of iron ore sintering for its lower emission and higher yield. However, there is a lack of deep understanding of the uneven quality of superhigh bed sintering products, and the deterioration of reduction disintegration performance, the thickening of hearth layer and the reduction in energysaving effect are perplexing ...
Lowtemperature (< 1300 °C) iron ore sinter is an agglomerate of unmelted and partially melted nuclei particles (+ 1 mm) and a matrix bonding phase produced from the melting of fine ore (− 1 mm) and flux particles, with the majority of melt formation occurring in the granule adhering fines layer.
Due to the fierce competition among iron and steel industries, improvement in sinter quality has already become a hot topic in ironmaking process. Sinter ore with superior strength and reducibility promotes the smooth running of blast furnace and decreases the consumption of fuel [, ]. Complex calcium ferrite, which also named silicoferrite of ...
The raw materials for an integrated steelworks can be classified into four categories, which are iron ores, fluxes, fuels, and reverts. The characteristics of these raw materials strongly affect the metallurgical properties of iron ore sinter and sinter plant performance. An optimal ore blend design is therefore essential to produce low cost ...
Abstract. Sintering is the most economic and widely used agglomeration process to prepare iron ore fines for blast furnace use. In this chapter, the sintering process is first described to ...
Iron ore sintering is the iron ore powder agglomeration process that changes fine iron ore powder into the lumpy ironbearing raw material used for blast furnace ironmaking. Hightemperature process and addition of alkaline flux will improve metallurgical performance of ironbearing raw material.
The mathematical modeling of the iron ore sintering process has received much attention since the 1970s, when Muchi and Higuchi7) proposed the first one dimensional (1D) model. Fig. 1 is an attempt to explain how the sintering process can be treated as a one or a two dimensional (2D) process. The top left quadrant shows a side view of a steady
Sintering Technology. 1. Sinter Making Technology Aritra Mallick AGM (Agglomeration) RDCIS, Ranchi. 2. Introduction During mining operation of Iron ore, big boulders are crushed to smaller size suitable for blast furnace charging. During this operation fines are generated and the same can not be discarded as it contains Fe to the tune of 60% ...
Iron ore pellets are small and hard spherical particles agglomerated from a fine iron ore concentrate. They are used in the blast furnace process to produce hot metal. The diameter of blast furnace pellets is usually between 8 and 16 mm. In this study, a batch of magnesia iron ore pellets was first sieved into particle sizes of 810 mm, mm, mm and 1620 mm, and the four ...
iron processing, use of a smelting process to turn the ore into a form from which products can be fashioned. Included in this article also is a discussion of the mining of iron and of its preparation for smelting. Iron (Fe) is a relatively dense metal with a silvery white appearance and distinctive magnetic properties.
The steel industry generates a significant amount of waste in the form of solid, liquid, and gas pollutants. The research aims to develop a suitable process that can convert these wastes into useful resources. The study focusses on utilizing the waste generated by the sinter plant, blast furnace and steel melting shop, which are the three main components of an integrated steel plant. The waste ...
The sintering basic characteristics of iron ore play a key role in the process of sintering. In this study, the effects of B 2 O 3 on the assimilation characteristics, softening temperature, fluidity of liquid phase, compressive strength of bonding phase, and microstructure of the mixed fine powder of hematite and vanadiumtitanium magnetite (HVTM) are studied.
During the iron ore sintering process, its SiO2 content considerably affects the sinter quality. In this study, the effect of SiO2 content on iron ore sintering indexes was studied, with mineral composition and microstructure analyses. It was shown that the strength and reducibility of sintering products improved when SiO2 content increased.
A systematic analysis of industrial iron ore sinter product and associated sinter returns was undertaken. The samples were characterised through identification of the major macro and microstructural types present in these materials.
In iron making process, sintering of iron ore fines is an integral step to utilize not only the ore fines but also to introduce a part of flux (limestone and dolomite) along with the sinter in blast furnace burden. In this way, the productivity of the furnace considerably improves.
It opens up the possibility of the internal utilization of plant wastes for a sustainable steel production process. From the results, it can be concluded that the composite briquettes are made by using solid waste materials to recycling in blast furnaces as a partial replacement for prime iron bearing raw materials like iron ore, sinter and pellet.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the sintering process converts finesized raw materials, including iron ore, coke breeze, limestone, mill scale, and flue dust, into an agglomerated product, sinter, of suitable size for charging into the blast furnace.
The granulation process for iron sinter production is the Q H first step in the production of pig iron, where fine iron ore JPU = (1) A DP together with other fine materials (collected dusts, mill scale), fluxes and coke breeze are converted into agglom where Q is the air flow rate (m3 min−1), A is the cross sec erates.
Sintering is a process by which a mixture of iron ores, fl uxes and coke is agglomerated in a sinter plant to manufacture a sinter product of a suitable composition, quality and...
The process of sintering is basically a pretreatment process step during iron making for the production of the charge material called sinter for the blast furnace from iron ore fines and also from metallurgical wastes (collected dusts, sludge and mill scale etc.).
The iron ore sintering process contributes up to 10% of the overall mass of carbon dioxide released from an integrated iron and steelworks. ... one type of biomass material has been identified that could satisfactorily be used in sinter making,, the residues from food processing, shells, husks, and pits. From this group of materials, olive ...
The sintering process is a thermal agglomeration process, and it is accompanied by chemical reactions. In this process, a mixture of iron ore fines, flux, and coal particles is heated to about 1300 °C1480 °C in a sinter bed. The strength and reducibility properties of iron ore sinter are obtained by liquid phase sintering. The silicoferrite of calcium and aluminum (SFCA) is the main ...
Iron ore sinter plants are energyintensive components of integrated iron and steel production (see Table 1), where the iron ore fines (<5 mm) are converted into larger (>5 mm) lump sinter cakes with greater gas permeability, which are the most important burden materials for iron making in blast furnaces (BFs) [7].The main process is shown in Fig. 2 and described in detail in previous studies ...
Iron ore sintering Chemistry Physical characteristics Mineralogy Granulation Densification Introduction Sintering is a thermal process of converting loose fine particles into a solid coherent mass by heat and/or pressure without fully melting the particles to the point of melting.
Section snippets Experimental method and parameters quantification. The commercial tests in sintering grate are enormously expensive. If the transfer phenomena in the directions of grate length and width are neglected, iron ore sintering can be considered as 1D (in the direction of bed height) unsteady process.
The coke combustion rate in an iron ore sintering process is one of the most important determining factors of quality and productivity. Biomass carbon material is considered to be a coke substitute with a lower CO2 emission in the sintering process. The purpose of this study was to investigate the combustion rate of a biomass carbon material and to use a sintering simulation model to calculate ...
Sintering is a thermal agglomeration process that is applied to a mixture of iron ore fines, recycled ironmaking products, fluxes, slagforming agents, and solid fuel (coke). The purpose of the sintering process is manufacturing a product with the suitable characteristics (thermal, mechanical, physical and chemical) to be fed to the blast furnace.
Sintering of iron ores is an enormous energyintensive and resources consuming process. Introducing a selective waste gas recirculation (SWGR) to the sintering process reduces the energy consumption, stack gas volume flow, and sulfur dioxide emissions of an iron sinter production. Simulating this complex process in flowsheet simulations of ...
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