Feng et al. [44,45] studied the waste heat recovery and gas flow in vertical tank for sinter. Zhou et al. [46] studied the influence of sintering parameters of different sintering layers on NOx emission in iron ore sintering process. Zhou et al. [47] and Tian et al. [48] studied the waste heat recovery and heat exchange problems.
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 18203695377Iron 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.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Intensification of the iron ore sintering process is approached with a fourway framework covering granulation improvement, waste gas recycling, fuel gas injection into the sinter bed, and reduction of stack emissions. Various metallurgical wastes are granulated to form micro pellets and are dosed along with the feed to cut down the cost.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Iron 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Silicoferrite 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sintering 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.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377During 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.
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.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Iron ore sintering is a material preparation process employed worldwide in the production of iron and steel. According to statistical data on pollution, sintering plants rank second in terms of toxic emissions, after the incineration of municipal solid waste ( Menad et al., 2006, Remus et al., 2013 ).
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The iron and steel industry, as the major sources of NOx emission, accounts for about 6% of the total NOx emissions of industry in China, 1,2) while the iron ore sintering process occupied approximately 50% of the total NOx emissions in the iron and steel industry. 3,4) Therefore, it is extremely urgent to reduce NOx emissions from the iron ore ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Some 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Abstract 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377research: 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
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In the iron ore sintering process iron ore fines and flux materials are agglomerated to produce porous lump that is suitable for charging into the blast furnace. The production of iron ore sinters with good reducibility, high mechanical strength and high softening temperature, is important in order to achieve high productivity, high thermal and ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Understanding 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 ...
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