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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Abstract 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 ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Sintering 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 18838072829Sintering of iron ores is an enormous energyintensive and resources consuming process. Introducing a selective waste gas recirculation (SWGR) to the sintering process reduces the energy consumption, stack gas volume flow, and sulfur dioxide emissions of an iron sinter production. Simulating this complex process in flowsheet simulations of ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829In 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.
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Biomass energy has been widely regarded as a potential alternative to fossil fuels for abating CO 2 emission and gaseous pollutants in iron ore sintering this investigation, the COcontaining flue gas recirculating method was proposed, with its essence of CO reburning to improve sintering performance with high biomass replacement proportion. . Results show that biomass fuels ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829During 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 18838072829The granulation of iron ore is an important process in the iron ore sintering. It strongly affects the permeability of sinter bed and then affects the productivity and properties of produced sinter such as strength and reducibility. The granulation ability of limonite ores was poor; they should be used with high granulation ability iron ores to ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829research: 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 18838072829The 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The 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 18838072829In 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 18838072829Some 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 18838072829Sintering 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Silicoferrite 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 18838072829In 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 188380728291. Introduction. The rapid depletion of highgrade iron ores, as well as the tremendous demand of iron and steel industries, has given rise to the urgent need for global attention on the effective utilization of refractory iron ore [1].In China, a large reserve of refractory iron ore lacks the appropriate treatment because of its properties such as low iron grade, complex composition and fine ...
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WhatsApp: +86 188380728291. Introduction. Iron ore sintering is an important hot agglomeration preprocess for ironmaking in most integrated steel mills. This process converts a mixture of ore fines, fluxes, return fines and plant dust to sinter by partial melting and resolidification of the granulated particles in a moving grate, in which the coke breeze is typically used as solid fuel with mixing ratios of 35 wt ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The 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 ...
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