This chapter focuses on the application of the sintering process as an important raw material preparation step for the production of hot metal in blast furnaces in integrated steel mills, which account for about 70% of the world's steel production annually. Sintering process for iron ore fines
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377When switching to sinter by using combined fuel, the blast furnace productivity increases by 1014%, and the specific fuel consumption in coke per unit of iron made decreases by 8%. Sinterediron ore has been the main raw material type for blast furnaces, with its share in ironmaking being 6070% [ 1 ]. This production will continue for a ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377An efficient sintering process was proposed based on the autocatalytic denitrification of the sintered ore. The catalytic denitrification of sintered ore, the effect of doublelayer ignition sintering process on the emission reduction in nitrogen oxides, and the impact on the quality of sintered ore were studied. The results showed that the catalyzed reduction of NO with sinter ore as a ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377During sintering process, iron ore fines, recycled ironbearing materials (dusts and slags), fluxes (dolomite, limestone, etc.), and fossil fuels, such as coke breeze and anthracite, are thoroughly mixed and agglomerated into lumplike sinter under about 1300 °C provided by the combustion of fossil fuels [10].
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The inhibition effect of calcined lime (CaO) and limestone (CaCO3) on the formation of dioxins during iron ore cosintering with fly ash was investigated in a sinter pot in the present work. Experimental results indicated that international total toxicity equivalent concentration of dioxins decreased from to,,, and ng ITEQ Nm−3 under four different ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The sintering process can be defined as a thermal agglomeration process that is applied to a mixture of iron ore fines, recycled ironmaking products, fluxes, slagforming agents, and solid fuel (coke) with the objective of obtaining a product with the suitable characteristics (thermal, mechanical, physical, and chemical) to be fed to the blast furnace.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sinter is the primary feed material for making iron in a blast furnace. Sinter is created by mixing iron ore concentrate with several additives such as limestone and silica to control the chemistry and then igniting it at 1200°C in a continuous beltfed furnace. Sinter feed composition control is important because the various sinter feed ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The iron ore powder used in the experiments was obtained from the raw material site of a steel company in southwest China. For B 2 O 3 an analytical reagent (≥98%) was used. The chemical composition of the raw materials is reported in Table 1 and Table 2. The raw materials are mixed powder (HVTM) composed of hematite powder and vanadium ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sintering is a process where a mixture of ore, flux and coke is agglomerated (agglomerated) in the sinter plant to produce suitable sintered products in terms of composition, quality and ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coke breeze is the main heat source in sintering process. Its combustion yields enough amounts of heat which melts the sinter mix. One of the factors that significantly affect the course of coke breeze combustion is its grain size [1,2,3].It is known that finegrained coke reduces permeability of the sinter mix and the use of coke breeze with particle size below 1 mm is avoided on the ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 182036953771 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.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The production of crude steel in the iron and steel industry in China has grown dramatically, which has made the country the world's largest steel producer since 1996 1,2,3. 40%60% of the total ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The quality control process for sintered ore is cumbersome and time and moneyconsuming. When the assay results come out and the ratios are found to be faulty, the ratios cannot be changed in time, which will produce sintered ore of substandard quality, resulting in a waste of resources and environmental pollution. For the problem of lagging sinter detection results, Long ShortTerm Memory ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In actual sinter production, batching is a complex metallurgical and mathematical problem. Aiming at the problem of the precising batching of iron ore in the process of sintering batching, an automatic batching algorithm based on a Cartesian product to batch sinter was proposed for the first time. When the algorithm is applied to the sintering batching process, a complete batching scheme can ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The main criterion of the sintering process is the quality ... The evaluation of the properties of iron ores shows that the best ores are from Brazil, Australia and Venezuela, Table 2 [3]. They have a suitable particle size ... Sinter grade ores and concentrates are characterized as iron ore raw materials with the required granulometry ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Iron ore is the source of primary iron for the world's iron and steel industries. It is therefore essential for the production of steel, which in turn is essential to maintain a strong industrial base. Almost all (98%) iron ore is used in steelmaking. Iron ore is mined in about 50 countries. The seven largest of these producing countries ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The CaO and MgO slag components do not coexist with iron ores and are added separately; therefore, CaO (such as limestone) and MgO (such as serpentine or dolomite) are mixed with iron ore fines as the sinter raw mix for the sintering process. The ultrafine iron ore reacts with the fluxes and forms a bonding matrix (silicoferrite of calcium and ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sinter is the main ironcontaining raw material for blast furnaces. As iron ore resources are gradually depleted, the types of raw materials for sinter are complicated, so their chemical composition often changes. ... Importance of textural information in mathematical modelling of iron ore fines sintering performance. Miner Process Extr Metall ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Iron ore sintering was a hightemperature process that preparing lump burden for further ironmaking. During this process, iron ore fines, recycled ironbearing materials, fluxes, and solid fuel including coke breeze, anthracite, etc., were thoroughly mixed and then agglomerated into finished sinter under 1300 °C provided by the combustion of ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The effect of the substitution of conventional coke breeze fuel used in sintering on final sinter quality and emission was examined. With regard to productivity, fuel consumption, and properties ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377This chapter focuses on the application of the sintering process as an important raw material preparation step for the production of hot metal in blast furnaces in integrated steel mills, which accounts for about 70% of world steel production annually.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Iron ore sintering is a simple and sustainable way to treat zincbearing secondary resources. In this paper, the reaction behavior of zinc was studied by combining thermodynamic calculation and simulation tests under sintering temperature and atmosphere. The evolution law of Zncontaining phases during the heating process was also revealed. The results showed that Zncontaining substances were ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The iron ore in the sintering dust was mainly magnetite, a small amount of hematite and gangue. Moreover, a small amount of quicklime also existed in the sintering dust due to using it as a solvent for the sintering process (Wu et al., 2022b). The peak intensity of metallic iron rose with the temperature, while peaks of magnetite and hematite ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Moreover, 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377According 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. It outlines the process as follows:
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377I. RuizBustinza of Mining and Energy Engineers (UPM) J. Mochón Carmen GonzálezGasca European University of Madrid Abstract and Figures Sintering is an agglomeration process that fuses...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The sintering process is shown in Fig. 3. In sintering process, the iron ore, flux, fuel and auxiliary materials are fed into the sintering machine after batching and mixing. Their dosages per ton sinter are m ore, m flux, m fuel and m other, respectively. The energy values of them are e ore, e flux, e fuel and e other, respectively. After ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The raw materials used are five kinds of iron ores and quicklime. Table 1 shows different iron ores' size distribution and bulk density (Zhou et al., 2020a).The five iron ores used in this study came from Australia and Brazil and had a wide size distribution ranging from 0 to 10 mm. Table 2 shows the chemical composition of each raw material. The iron ore samples were dried in an oven at 105 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The iron ore sintering process is the process of mixing powdered iron ore, fuels, fluxes and recycling materials for the sintering process according to certain composition, mixing with water and igniting to sinter the raw materials into blocks in an incomplete melting state.
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