Understanding Sinter and Sinter Plant Operations. Sintering is a process of agglomeration of fine mineral particles into a porous and lumpy mass by incipient fusion caused by heat produced by combustion of solid fuel within the mass itself. The sintering process is a pretreatment step in the production of iron, where fine particles of iron ...
The iron ore fines (− 10 mm) are agglomerated using Dwight Lloyed sintering machine. The iron ore fines and coke breeze fines mix with moisture is fed on the sinter bed which is ignited by a gas burner to initiate sintering process. The hot sintered ore is discharged at the end of the machine. The energy consumption in sinter plants in the ...
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 ...
1. Introduction Sintering is the main means to make the highquality synthetic iron ore (synthetic iron ore is iron that has been sintered to produce a product that can be used similarly to real iron ore, which has more suitable drum strength, alkalinity, iron grade, and granulometry than normal standard iron ore).
Abstract. Within an integrated steelworks, iron ore sinter making is an energy intensive process. In recent years, biomass is becoming an attractive alternative source of energy to traditional fossil fuels such as coal. In this study, commercially available biomass materials suited to sinter making have been identified as an alternative source ...
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 ...
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 and the key steps of the sintering process, namely, granulation and thermal densification, are identified. Discussion is then focused on the effect of the chemical ...
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.
Iron ore sintering is a typical process with high material consumption, high pollution and high emissions. As reported in many studies (Chen et al., 2014, Li and Zhu, 2014, Tian et al., 2012), the energy consumption of sintering accounts for approximately 912% of the total energy consumption for the iron and steel enterprise.
Some of them do not require sintering or pelletizing of iron ore either. Typically, the SR process concept comprises two stages. In a first stage the iron ore is prereduced in the solid state and in a second the final reduction in the liquid state and melting is performed (Babich et al., 2016; Improved Technologies for Cost Effective ...
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.
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.
The interaction between mineral phases in two commercial iron ores and flux materials (CaO, MgO, SiO2, and Al2O3) was studied under kPa O2 partial pressure while heating to different temperatures. CaO was the most effective flux for liquid phase generation during sintering. For a hematite ore with few gangue components (Ore A), the formation of an initial liquid phase commenced at ~ 1275 ...
ABSTRACT. Sintering is a process of agglomeration of iron ore fines, fluxes, recycled products, slagforming elements, and coke with the purpose of achieving an agglomerated product with the suitable composition, quality and granulometry to be used as burden material in the blast furnace.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Throughout the whole steelmaking process, iron ore sintering is the first hightemperature process with its purpose to prepare lump burden for ironmaking in blast furnace. During sintering process, iron ore fines, recycled ironbearing materials (dusts and slags), fluxes (dolomite, limestone, etc.), and fossil fuels, such as coke breeze and ...
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 facilitates feed of iron ore fines in blast furnace, blended with fluxes and coking coal / coke. The depletion of iron ore quality poses new challenges to steel makers. There is a need to find alternate solutions maintaining optimal composition and metallurgical properties of the sinter to enable the production of highquality hot ...
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 ...
The basic hightemperature properties of iron ore play a crucial role in optimizing sintering and ore blending, but the testing process for these properties is complex and has significant lag time, which cannot meet the actual needs of ore blending. A prediction model for the basic hightemperature properties of iron ore fines was thus proposed based on a combination of machine learning ...
In complex industrial processes such as sintering, key quality variables are difficult to measure online and it takes a long time to obtain quality variables through offline testing. Moreover, due to the limitations of testing frequency, quality variable data are too scarce. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a sintering quality prediction model based on multisource data fusion and ...
In order to study in depth the differences in basic characteristics between iron ore fines commonly used by a steel company, and guide the sintering performance plant to choose the best ore allocation method, experimental studies on the basic characteristics of seven iron ore powders of three sizes were carried out using microsintering equipment, mainly including assimilation properties ...
Abstract and Figures. Sinter plants process a mixture of iron ore fines, recycled ironmaking products, slagforming agents and solid fuel (coke) with the finality of obtaining a product with the ...
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 ...
The sintering of iron ore in the laboratory scale reactor provided a reasonable representation of the plant scale process in terms of combustion characteristics. Comparison of results with an inert bed of alumina and with iron ore mix emphasised the need to carry out simulations with sinter mix rather than an inert substitute.
research: iron ore, iron ore concentrate, coke breeze, limestone, lime, anthracite, walnut shell, sunflower husk and wood charcoal. The chemical composition of the blend materials is given in Table 1 while Table 2 presents the proximate analysis of the fuels applied for the study. Table 1 Chemical Composition of the Blend Materials (wt.%) Materials
The iron ore sintering process is one of the most energyintensive and pollutantemitting processes in . the steel process, with significantly higher SO 2, NO x, CO, CO 2 and dioxin emissions and ...
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 ...
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.
Accurate computational models of sintering behavior would assist to enhance sinter quality and are anticipated to play a role in yield prediction. Sintering is a vital process in the manufacturing of iron and steel. As a consequence, the primary objective of these models will be a thorough simulation of mass and heat transport during the sintering process. In this paper, based on the ...
Sintering process is developed mainly to utilize under size of lump ore called iron ore fines; which otherwise, could not be charged directly in blast furnace. In order to conserve these, otherwise waste material, they are compacted together and made into lumps by a process known as is defined as the agglomeration of the ...
The 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 3. 40%60% of the total ironcontaining burden in the blast furnace during ironmaking is sinter iron ore sintering process is one of the vital steps in an integrated steelmaking chain, the goal of which is to ...
11. 11 B. FIXING OF FEED RATE : For sending raw mix to sinter machine for sintering, fixation of feed rate of materials is done considering capacity of the sinter machine and quality requirement of blast furnace. Feed rate fixed is : Iron ore fines 250 T/hr. Flux 75 T/hr. ( Feeding of Flux depends on available lime in sinter required in blast lime means CaO SiO2 in sinter.)
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