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.
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Iron ore sinter plants are energyintensive components of integrated iron and steel production (see Table 1), where the iron ore fines (<5 mm) are converted into larger (>5 mm) lump sinter cakes with greater gas permeability, which are the most important burden materials for iron making in blast furnaces (BFs) [7].The main process is shown in Fig. 2 and described in detail in previous studies ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Sinter 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The 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 ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Sintering raw materials include iron ore powder (rich ore powder, concentrate powder), flux (limestone, dolomite, quicklime, etc.), fuel (coke powder and anthracite), additives (roll scale and some recycled materials), return ore in sintering process, and return ore below ironmaking trough. Process Flow
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Limonite (brown iron ore) used as a raw material for sintering is inexpensive, but problems include the fact that this ore combines strongly with water and has a coarse particle size. These properties have a serious impact on productivity in the sintering process (Lu and Ishiyama 2016). By solving these problems, this device makes it possible ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829An efficient sintering process was proposed based on the autocatalytic denitrification of the sintered ore. The catalytic denitrification of sintered ore, the effect of doublelayer ignition sintering process on the emission reduction in nitrogen oxides, and the impact on the quality of sintered ore were studied. The results showed that the catalyzed reduction of NO with sinter ore as a ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Sinter is the main ironcontaining raw material for blast furnaces. As iron ore resources are gradually depleted, the types of raw materials for sinter are complicated, so their chemical composition often changes. ... Importance of textural information in mathematical modelling of iron ore fines sintering performance. Miner Process Extr Metall ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The 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 18838072829The typical iron ore sintering process supplies the main ferrous charge for blast furnaces in most steel mills. During sintering, first the sinter raw materials are intimately mixed and granulated to produce granules with a narrow size distribution, large mean size and sufficient strength. ... while sinter is the best candidate material for ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The sintering process is shown in Fig. 3. In sintering process, the iron ore, flux, fuel and auxiliary materials are fed into the sintering machine after batching and mixing. Their dosages per ton sinter are m ore, m flux, m fuel and m other, respectively. The energy values of them are e ore, e flux, e fuel and e other, respectively. After ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Iron ore is the source of primary iron for the world's iron and steel industries. It is therefore essential for the production of steel, which in turn is essential to maintain a strong industrial base. Almost all (98%) iron ore is used in steelmaking. Iron ore is mined in about 50 countries. The seven largest of these producing countries ...
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.
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Mineralization 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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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Blast furnace ironmaking has the advantages of a good economic index, simple process, large output, and high production efficiency, which represents the major hot metalmaking process in the world [1,2].With the largescale development of modern blast furnaces, iron ore resources are becoming increasingly scarce, which makes the raw material structure of sintering plants fluctuate greatly, and ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Sintering is a process that consists in the thermal agglomeration of a mixture of fines that comprise iron ore, recycled iron and steelmaking products, slagforming ... Iron ore sintering: Raw materials and granulation, where the concentration techniques used in the case of the iron minerals are described, as well as the current demand of iron ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Summary. In this chapter, we learned that three main ferrous burden materials are used in BF operation; lump ore, sinter, and pellets. The types of iron ores used to produce these three ferrous charge materials and the related production methods were described. The various analysis methods used to determine the quality of the BF charge ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The ironore sintering process contributes up to 10% of the overall CO 2 emissions in the integrated steel plant. ... Composite pelletsa potential raw material for ironmaking. Steel Res. Int., 85 (3) (2014), pp. 293306. CrossRef View in Scopus Google Scholar. Ariyama et al., 2005.
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The hightemperature characteristics of iron ores play important roles in optimizing ore proportion of sintering, which are tested by using ironore fines and analytical reagent CaO as raw materials. Two calculation methods of CaO addition amount based on binary basicity (basicity method) and n(Fe2O3)/n(CaO) (mole ratio method), respectively, were employed to evaluate the liquid phase fluidity ...
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