The iron ore sintering process is the second largest energy consuming process next to the blast furnace in overall integrated steel plant value chain. Sintering consists of two moving beds, namely a sintering machine, and an annular cooler. Once the sintering is completed, hot sinter is discharged on the annular cooler and air is blown from the bottom with blowers for cooling the sinter to ...
Sinter is the primary feed material for making iron in a blast furnace. During the iron ore sintering process in iron and steel manufacturing, 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. The production of highquality sinter is crucial for assuring ...
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 granulometry...
diagram of the iron and steel industry in Figure Coke production is discussed in detail in Section of this publication, and more information on the handling and transport of materials is found in Chapter 13. Sinter Production The sintering process converts finesized raw materials, including iron ore, coke breeze,
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).
Iron ore sintering entails high energy consumption and also produces significant pollution, responsible for the highest share of CO 2 emission, as well as SO 2 and NOx emissions, in the iron and steel production processes. 5 The SO 2 and NO X emissions from this process account for ∼70% and ∼40% of the total iron and steel industry emissions, respectively. 6 Some researchers have used ...
Iron ore sintering process is the main CO 2 emission source throughout the integrate steelworks, which primarily comes from the combustion of solid fuels. Improving the combustion efficiency and reducing the solid fuel consumption are important ways to reduce the CO 2 emission in the sintering process. Around the efficient combustion of fuel, the migration behavior and combustion ...
During the iron ore sintering process, there is a universally known feature of uneven heat distribution in the sintering bed [26], [27]. The sintered material is mixed, granulated, and then filled into the sinter machine with a uniform fuel distribution in conventional sintering processes. After ignition, the flame front forms in the upper ...
In the iron ore sintering process, it is desirable to maximize the productivity and quality of sinter while minimizing the fuel consumption for any given raw material (iron ore, flux and solid fuel) quality. However, given the complexity of the sintering process and the large number of manipulated variables, it is not practical for operators to identify appropriate set points for the ...
The total reaction involved in the process of sintering is the sum of a number of reactions which involve reactions in heating zone, reactions in sintering zone and reactions in cooling zone. These reactions are illustrated schematically for typical sintering of a limefluxed haematite ore in Fig. 11. Fig. : Development of Minerals during ...
The iron ore sintering process commonly employs anthracite and coke as fuels, and the volatile matter is commonly<10%. Initially, we considered that the volatile matter of the fuel was closely related to the emissions of VOCs and investigated the effect of coal type on VOC emissions by sintering cup experiments [17].
The article presents results of the research on the use of chars produced during pyrolysis of residual biomass as a substitutional fuel in the iron ore sintering process. Such an approach allows to implement circular economy and industrial symbiosis to the iron and steel branches. The effect of the substitution of conventional coke breeze fuel used in sintering on final sinter quality and ...
have shown a signicant improvement when the pot sintering experiments are performed through the proposed process. Keywords iron ore · Preprocessing · Granulation · Fluxes, sinter properties · Sintering process 1 Introduction The sinter mix contains various materials such as iron ore, ux, solid fuel, plant return sinter nes, plant generated
As a key thermalstate indicator of the iron ore sintering process, the content of ferrous oxide (FeO) in the finished sinter is directly related to product quality. Based on the massive data of sintering process, the datadriven soft sensor model provides a good choice for realtime FeO content detection. However, the complex characteristics of the data, including dynamics, nonlinearity, and ...
The iron ore sintering process is one of the vital steps in an integrated steelmaking chain, the goal of which is to agglomerate iron ore fines into porous sinters with a high mechanical strength ...
Coke 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 ...
Iron ore sintering is a promising thermal method for codisposing the municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) fly ash. To reduce the increased dioxins in flue gas caused by adding fly ash powder, pelletizing was used as a pretreatment for fly ash to enhance the degradation of dioxins. High specific surface area (5380 cm 2 g −1) made the fly ash balls easier to be prepared.
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.
Most of the industrial CO is produced by steelmaking. For example, the iron ore sintering process in steelmaking emits CO in a concentration exceeding 4000 mg/Nm 3 in the flue gas [1]. This amount ...
The sintering performance of three typical specular hematite ores (coarse SOA, intermediate SOB and ultrafine SOC) was compared in an industrial ore blend through pilotscale sinter pot tests.
Iron ore sintering consists of heating a layer of fines until partial melting occurs and individual ore particles fuse together. For this purpose, a travelinggrate machine is used, and the burning of fine coke (known as coke breeze) within the ore generates the necessary heat. Before being delivered to the sinter machine, the ore mixture is ...
The only source of primary iron is iron ore, but before all that iron ore can be turned into steel, it must go through the sintering process. 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.
Iron ore sintering is one of the key steps in the ironmaking process, where granulated pellets are transformed into sinter in the sintering machine, providing an ideal raw material for ironmaking blast furnace. Drum granulation in the sintering process plays an essential role in determining the final sintering performance.
References (69) ... 6,7) Iron ore sintering is an agglomeration process of a mixture of ore fines mainly consisting of iron ores, fluxes and fuel, which produces sinters with suitable chemical and ...
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 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 sintering technology was originally developed for the purpose of utilizing ...
The process state of iron ore sintering is characterised via the bed permeability, the temperature rising point, the burn rising point and the burn through point. The intelligent control strategy ...
In the iron ore sintering process, the heat is supplied majorly by solid fuel. Higher is the solid fuel, more is the formation of Fe 3 O 4 and FeO [2, 3]. The degree of reduction is indicated by the amount of Fe 3 O 4 and FeO. Increase in FeO increases the strength of the sinter. The other mineralogical phase that enhances the strength of the ...
During sintering, water plays a key role, as a binder to granulate the iron ore mix. It permeates through ore particles under the influence of capillary force and reaches the surface and then migrates further into ore particles [ 6 ].
The sinter process of iron ore with biomass carbon instead of coke breeze as fuel was investigated via thermodynamic analysis in this paper through a comparison of sinter composition indexes, metallurgical properties, and pollutant emissions. Straw charcoal was used in this paper, and its replacement does not adversely affect the composition index of iron ore, namely Fe, FeO, basicity, S, nor ...
Mineralization testing process included ore matching, agglomeration, roasting and mineralogical analysis. Iron ores and fluxes (dolomite, limestone, and quicklime) were mixed to a feed, which then was used to produce sinter with SiO 2 %, basicity (CaO/SiO 2) and MgO %, the proportions of each material were shown in Table principle of ore matching for adhesion layer was ...
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