problems in the sintering process as well as inthe blastfurnace ironmaking. 1 It is widely known that alkali metals like potassium and sodium cause operational problems in the iron blast furnace ...
The sintering raw materials used in this test were from a Chinese iron and steel enterprise, including blended ore, return ore, dolomite, quicklime, coke, outsourced coke, fly ash, etc. The orematching scheme of the sintering pot test is shown in Table 4. In the test, dolomite was used as MgObearing flux, the proportion was fixed, and the ...
Sinter making is an intermediate step in valueadded chain for producing steel. Iron ore fines (−10 mm) is agglomerated to make it suitable blast furnace feed. In sintering process, ironore is partially reduced, and different fluxes are added to eliminate the undesirable elements in the slag.
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 ...
2 Raw Materials. Impure iron is produced from reduction of iron ore by means of coke in a blast furnace. The product is a liquid iron, known as hot metal (% C, % Si, % Mn, etc.) which is raw material for production of steel. Hot metal is refined by oxidation process to form steel.
Sintering is the most widely used agglomeration process for preparing iron ore fines for blast furnace applications. We are using our expertise in iron ore sintering and evaluation of blast furnace burdens to assist industry to maximise the value of their resources, optimise product quality and reduce their environmental footprint.
Sintering process is a generic term that is used to describe the process of agglomeration of a green mix of iron ores, fluxes and coke and plant solid wastes having a particle size of 10 mm so as to produce sinter which can withstand operating pressure and temperature conditions existing in a BF.
The sintering process produces iron ore agglomeration of size 1040 mm with better reducibility values than lumps. Utilization of a higher proportion of quality agglomerates in the burden increases the productivity of the blast furnace. The sintering process increases the productivity and reduces the requirement of fuel, flux, and operation time.
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).
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.
The partial pressure of oxygen is an important parameter that influences the formation of various mineralogical phases in the sinter. Researchers [8, 13,14,15,16] have established the desired oxygen partial pressure to achieve optimum SFCA phase in iron ore sinter and the influence of SiO 2, Al 2 O 3, MgO, and dependency on temperature and partial pressure of oxygen is indicated ...
Moreover, the conventional iron making unit, blast furnace requires the raw material in the form of iron oxide with a size range of 10120 mm. Sintering is the oldest agglomerate thermal process using iron ore mineral fines of mm, along with the reductant, fluxes, and other byproducts of the iron and steel industry operated ...
Iron ore sinter is the result of a complex physicochemical reaction among the minerals present in the sinter mix in the sintering zone of heating and cooling. The precipitated mineral phases are influenced by maximum temperature reached, chemical composition, oxygen partial pressure ( p O 2 ), and cooling rate [ 2 ].
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% ...
Sinter plants agglomerate iron ore fines (dust) with other fine materials at high temperature, to create a product that can be used in a blast final product, a sinter, is a small, irregular nodule of iron mixed with small amounts of other minerals. The process, called sintering, causes the constituent materials to fuse to make a single porous mass with little change in the chemical ...
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 ...
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.
Ironbearing materials: The function of the ironbearing materials is to supply the iron, which represents about % of the hot metal. Major ironbearing materials are lump ore (contains 5265% Fe), sinter (contains 5265% Fe) and pellets (contains 6067% Fe); minor ironbearing materials are mill scale and steelmaking slag (which ...
The selective granulation process is a new sintering process for high alumina iron ore fines, and can eliminate the adverse effects of 'hard to sinter' or 'unsuitable for ironmaking' ores.
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 ...
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.
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 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.
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.
This section describes sintering process, analyzes its characteristics, and introduces the carbon efficiency and thermal state parameters. Iron Ore Sintering Process. DwightLloyd sintering machine is adopted in sintering process, as shown in Fig. qualified sinter produced by the sintering process is utilized in the blast furnace process [].
During the iron ore sintering process trace elements can have four different destinations: remain in the sinter product, be retained by the abatement methods in the form of particulates, be emitted into the atmosphere as particulate material, or be emitted into the atmosphere in the gaseous form ( Xu et al., 2004 ).
In the modern high basicity iron ore sintermaking process, complex calcium ferrites consisting of predominantly Fe, Ca, Al, Si, (Mg) and O are formed from high temperature reactions between the iron ore fines, coke breeze and flux ().The calcium ferrite phases are considered the dominant bonding phases in the sinter product and are usually grouped together under the acronym 'SFCA' (Silico ...
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 ...
Sinter making is an agglomeration process of iron ore fines. As sizes of iron ore fines are very small, iron ores are converted into sinter before charging to Blast furnace. Quality of the sinter depends on different parameters namely raw material, gas flow, heat pattern in sinter bed and granulation of sintering.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
1 Introduction The sinter mix contains various materials such as iron ore, flux, solid fuel, plant return sinter fines, plant generated wastes, etc., where the majority of it is iron ore.
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...
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