The 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.
The iron ore sintering process results in significant VOC emissions owing to the mixed combustion of fossil fuels, iron ore, and coke . Especially in typical iron and steelproducing cities such as Tangshan and Handan, iron ore sintering processes account for % of the national VOC emissions [11,12]. In response to the large VOC ...
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 ...
Silicoferrite of calcium and aluminum (SFCA) is one of the most commonlyproduced phases in fluxed ironore sintering, and has long been regarded as an important bonding phase in industrial sinters. It is thus considered to have a significant effect on sinter quality. In this study, a solid solution model and database has been developed for the SFCA phase, and has been incorporated into the ...
World resources are estimated to be greater than 800 billion tons of crude ore containing more than 230 billion tons of iron. 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 the primary feed material for making iron and steel in a blast furnace.
Turning low grade iron ore into the most used metal in the world is no easy task. Learn how this hot process works on Discovery Channel's "HowStuffWorks" sho...
The sintering process is an important production link in the iron and steel industry, and its energy consumption accounts for about 1116% of the total energy consumption of the industry, and the pollutants emitted by sintering account for about 50% of the total emissions of steel enterprises [1, 2].In April 2019, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China ...
In the iron and steel metallurgical industry, vanadiumtitanium magnetite containing about wt.% TiO 2 and wt.% V 2 O 5 is a type of raw material used for iron ore sintering . In some enterprises, the mature process of extracting Ti from blast furnace smelting, and recovering V from converter smelting has been established by using ...
A short description of the sintering process is also presented in FernándezGonzález et al. (2018). Figure shows the main parts of an iron ore sintering plant (DwightLloyd machine). Despite at first instance the agglomeration of ores has imposed as a process required in the iron extractive metallurgy, this process has changed with the
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 [].
The present work proposes a novel process to sinter porous iron ore (porosity ~2324%) with enhanced productivity and quality. The iron ore is preprocessed in the presence of calcined lime for the temporary closure of pores, which further prevents water absorption during the granulation process in drum in the presence of water. The calcined lime coated iron ore provides surface coating on ...
Carbon monoxide is the major hazardous component in flue gas exhausting from the iron ore sintering. This study aims to reduce the CO emission by changing the sinter parameters by sintering pot tests; specifically, the sinter quality, CO concentration, and total emission in sintering flue gas were analyzed in detail. The sinter strength properties, including the shatter index and the tumble ...
The ironore sintering process contributes up to 10% of the overall CO 2 emissions in the integrated steel plant. The CO 2 is mainly coming from the combustion of coke breeze and the decomposition of fluxes additives such as dolomite and limestone.
The iron ore sintering process has the potential on largescale harmless utilization of COPR and Cbearing dust. This study proposes a new approach of coutilizing COPR and Cbearing dust during limonitic laterite sintering process. The negative influence of COPR and Cbearing dust on permeability was offset by the fuel attribute of extra C ...
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 ...
In an iron ore sintering bed, the combustion behaviour of coke particles together with velocity of the flowing gas stream determines the temperature, width and speed of the traversing flame front. A bed heat treatment mathematical model was formulated in an earlier study to describe this complex relationship. An area of improvement in the model is the description of the coke combustion process ...
In this case, the iron ore sintering process serves as the first step in the ironmaking process and provides the main raw material for the blast furnace. The sintering process consists of the following three phases (Er et al., 2000). First, the raw materials including iron ore, coke, coal, quick lime, returned sinter, and other additives are ...
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 identify the key steps of the process, that is, granulation and thermal densification. Discussion is then focused on the effect of the chemical, physical, and ...
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. Besides, the sintering process will consume the ...
Watch how Pelletization of iron ore can lead to energy savings of 126 TJ with a 50% increase in sponge iron production annually. United Nations Development P...
Abstract. 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. In this paper, some fundamental aspects such as the ...
Modeling Sintering Process of Iron Ore |:(1) Iron:
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 ...
Sinter 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 ...
The sinter plant that converts the iron ore fines into a desirable blast furnace feed, offers an avenue for recycling wastes. One of the several wastes that are produced at an iron and steel plant is the undersized pellet fines, which cannot be directly used in iron making. The present study evaluated the influence of these pellet fines on the sintering process. 5 experiments were conducted ...
In this study, a sintering test of highalumina limonite from Indonesia, matched with an appropriate magnetite concentration, is performed. The sintering yield and quality index are effectively improved by optimizing the ore matching and regulating the basicity. For the optimal coke dosage of % and basicity of, the tumbling index of the ore blend is found to be % and the ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Improving the combustion efficiency of solid fuels is important for reducing carbon monoxide emissions in the iron ore sintering process. In this paper, the surface steam spraying technology is introduced in the sintering process based on the auxiliary combustion effect of steam on coke, and its potential to reduce carbon monoxide emissions is demonstrated. Thermogravimetric analysis ...
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 ...
© DZCrusher - كل الحقوق محفوظة
