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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The 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.
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 ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Iron 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.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sintering process for iron ore fines Like other sintering processes, iron ore sintering converts iron ore fines of often − 8 mm sizing into larger agglomerates, namely, sinter, between 5 and 50 mm particle size, which possess the physical and metallurgical characteristics and gas permeability required for efficient blast furnace operation.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The principal mechanism of iron ore granulation can be described as the layering of adhering fine particles onto the coarse nuclei particles under the action of water, as shown in Fig., this mechanism is commonly known as "autolayering" [5, 6].A typical iron ore granule is generally comprised of an inner seed coarse particle, which acts as the nucleus of the granule, and an ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Iron ore sintering is a pretreatment step of smelting that agglomerates the iron ore using surface melting of green pellets to improve the quality of the steel product. The sintering process not only improves the quality of steel products, but also releases CO and CO2 gases, evaporates moisture, and improves the reducibility of iron ore to ensure smooth operation of the blast furnace. These ...
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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 18203695377A short description of the sintering process is also presented in FernándezGonzález et al. (2018). Figure shows the main parts of an iron ore sintering plant (DwightLloyd machine). Despite at first instance the agglomeration of ores has imposed as a process required in the iron extractive metallurgy, this process has changed with the
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