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.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sintering 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377ABSTRACT. 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.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sintering is a crucial process in integrated steel plants where a mixture of iron ores, fluxes, and coke are fused to produce a sinter. During sintering, various mineral phases crystallize and bind the grains together, resulting in a strong sinter.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Carbon 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The 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 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.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Granulation and sintering are the two most important steps of the iron ore agglomeration process to produce sintered ore. Since granulation takes place at room temperature and is mainly characterized by physical and interfacial phenomena, while sintering is a thermal densification process involving extensive chemical reactions, the characteristics of the ore blends during these processes are ...
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 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Therefore, the aggregation action of the binding phase in the iron ore sintering process can be improved (Yang et al., 2004). Show abstract With the objectives of reducing CO 2 emissions and applying hydrogenenriched gas in the iron ore sintering process, a mathematical model was developed to simulate the natural gas (NG) injection in the ...
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 18203695377Abstract. Flamefront speed has a large influence on sinter quality and production. To study the influence of flamefront speed on pisoliteore sintering, five tests were conducted in a laboratory sinter pot. Through varying mix moisture, flamefront speeds ranging from to mm/min were obtained. The results revealed that when the flame ...
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 182036953771. 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 18203695377Throughout 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sinter 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 suitable characteristics (thermal, mechanical, physical, and chemical) for being fed to the blast furnace. ... and the conditions of the sintering process. Sinter ...
WhatsApp: +86 1820369537711. 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.)
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Optimizing iron ore proportion is significant for improving the performances of sintering process, and the cost of iron ores is important for iron and steel company. Linear programming is an effective optimization method, which can consider both the indices of ore proportion and the cost of iron ores at the same time. Therefore, in the present work, aimed for reducing the cost of sintering ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sintering, which is also called 'frittage,' is the process of forming a solid mass of material through heat and pressure without melting to the point of liquefaction. This process involves the atoms in materials diffusing across the particle boundaries and fusing together into one piece. Sintering occurs naturally in mineral deposits, and ...
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 18203695377The 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 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 18203695377Superhigh 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 ...
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