The present work proposes a novel process to sinter porous iron ore (porosity ~2324%) with enhanced productivity and quality. The iron ore is preprocessed in the presence of calcined lime for the temporary closure of pores, which further prevents water absorption during the granulation process in drum in the presence of water. The calcined lime coated iron ore provides surface coating on ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The iron and steel industry has made an important contribution to China's economic development, and sinter accounts for 7080% of the blast furnace feed charge. However, the average grade of domestic iron ore is low, and imported iron ore is easily affected by transportation and price. The intelligent ore blending model with an intelligent algorithm as the core is studied.
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WhatsApp: +86 182036953771 Introduction Agglomeration processes are necessary to utilize the iron ore fines (< 10 mm) that are generated due to mechanized mining of iron ore. Sintering is one of the most prevalent agglomeration processes due to its lower capital cost and operational flexibility.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Amongst various processes used in agglomeration, sintering and pelletization are widely used in the iron ore industries. About 70% of the blast furnace feed is reporting from the sintering processes. The objective of iron ore agglomeration is to generate a suitable product of granules in terms of thermal, mechanical, physical, and chemical ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sintering emissions and their mitigation technologies. L. Lu, ... X. Li, in Iron Ore, 2015. Key gaseous emissions from sinter plants. Iron 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377At this stage, China's black smelting technology is still dominated by the "sinteringblast furnaceconverter" process. The CO 2 emissions of sintering and blast furnace(BF), which consume the most energy, account for about 80% of the CO 2 emissions of the iron and steel industry [].In the main threestep process, the former always provides raw materials for the latter, so sintering production ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The sintering process is used to agglomerate a mix of iron ore fines, return fines, fluxes, and coke, with a particle size of less than 10 mm, so that the resulting sinter, with a screened size of 5 mm to 30 mm, can withstand pressure and temperature conditions in the blast furnace (BF). The process of sintering of iron ore fines was primarily ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The iron ore production has significantly expanded in recent years, owing to increasing steel demands in developing countries. However, the content of iron in ore deposits has deteriorated and lowgrade iron ore has been processed. ... Wynnckyj J, Fahidy T. Solid state sintering in the induration of iron ore pellets. Metallurgical Transactions ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Intensification of the iron ore sintering process was approached by injecting hydrogenrich gas into the sinter bed. The location of the injection was critical to the pyrolysis of the solid fuel, and the SOx and NO x emissions.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377around the world to optimize the iron ore sintering production by increasing the thickness of materials layer. As a result materials layer thickness of sintering machines has also continued to increase, from 200300 mm at that time to more than 700 mm now. Due to the limitation of special iron ore resources and technical conditions, later ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sinter plants agglomerate iron ore fines (dust) with other fine materials at high temperature, to create a product that can be used in a blast furnace. The final product, a sinter, is a small, irregular nodule of iron mixed with small amounts of other minerals.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The steps involved in the iron ore sintering process is shown in Fig. 1. Various raw materials used in sintering viz. iron ore fines, fluxes, solid fuel and steel plant reverts are blended in a specific proportion as per the desired chemical composition of sinter and stockpiled in an open yard. Stockpiling is done to ensure chemical and physical
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The sintering process is used to agglomerate a mix of iron ores (blend), return fines, fluxes and coke, with a particle size of less than 10 mm, so that the resulting sinter, with a screened size of 10 mm to 30 mm, can withstand pressure and temperature conditions in the blast furnace. Principle of sintering
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The iron ore pellet enters the shaft furnace from the top, through the stream M1 at ambient temperature. Impurities have an adverse impact on the reaction kinetics and should be limited to less than 5%. The iron ore pellets react with the hydrogen gas, which enters the shaft furnace from the bottom of the furnace at 1173 K, represented by M4.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377To ascertain the problems of superhigh bed sintering, ten sintering machines with the areas of 265, 280, 360, 550 and 660 m2 and bed depth above 900 mm were sampled and analyzed. ... Superhigh bed sintering process is an important development direction of iron ore sintering for its lower emission and higher yield. However, there is a l Skip ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377FernándezGonzález et al. : Iron ore sintering: Environment, automatic, and ... A sintering machine produces, in a certain time, 1177 kg of sinter with the following composition: 64% Fe 2 O 3, 6% FeO, 10% SiO 2, and 20% CaO. However, due to quality requirements (granulometry), 177 kg of sinter (with the same composition) is recycled to the ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The industrial test results of 360 m 2 sintering machine in No. 2 sintering workshop and the No. 4 and No. 5 blast furnaces of Ironmaking Plant of Angang Steel Co. Ltd for nearly 7 months show that the new double layer presintering process is completely feasible in production practice, and % of the sintering output has been achieved. The ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377References (69) ... 6,7) Iron ore sintering is an agglomeration process of a mixture of ore fines mainly consisting of iron ores, fluxes and fuel, which produces sinters with suitable chemical and ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In complex industrial processes such as sintering, key quality variables are difficult to measure online and it takes a long time to obtain quality variables through offline testing. Moreover, due to the limitations of testing frequency, quality variable data are too scarce. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a sintering quality prediction model based on multisource data fusion and ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Automated optical image analysis of natural and sintered iron ore. E. Donskoi, ... Manuel, in Iron Ore, 2015 Sinter. Lowtemperature (< 1300 °C) iron ore sinter is an agglomerate of unmelted and partially melted nuclei particles (+ 1 mm) and a matrix bonding phase produced from the melting of fine ore (− 1 mm) and flux particles, with the majority of melt formation occurring in ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Hydrogenrich gas and steam are widely regarded to be of great potential to mitigate CO 2 emissions in iron ore sintering, these gases can regulate heat distribution in the sintering machines by replacing fossil fuels. However, most sintering machines only use one of the gases as the injecting medium, the potential of this technology has not been developed.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Prior to dispatch of sinter to the blast furnace for hot metal production, the sinter product from the sinter cooler is screened to remove smaller/finer particles. The undersize so generated is called internal return fines, which are generally recirculated into the sintering machine. A very high level of internal return fines generation limits the use of ore for sintering which may ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In this case, the iron ore sintering process serves as the first step in the ironmaking process and provides the main raw material for the blast furnace. The sintering process consists of the following three phases (Er et al., 2000). First, the raw materials including iron ore, coke, coal, quick lime, returned sinter, and other additives are ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sintering is the most extensively used and economic agglomeration process to prepare iron ore fines for blast furnace use. Granulation is the most critical factor controlling iron ore sintering process, as it improves sinter mix permeability. Currently, sinter plants are receiving significant proportion (up to 40%) of − 150 μm microfines in iron ore fines, which makes sintering difficult ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In 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 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.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377For the ferrous burden of blast furnaces in China, sinter generally accounts for more than 70% and the sintering process accounts for approximately 610% of the total energy consumption of the iron and steel enterprise. Therefore, saving energy during the sintering process is important to reduce the energy consumption in the iron and steel industry. This paper aims to illustrate recent ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Iron 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The sintering process produces iron ore agglomeration of size 1040 mm with better reducibility values than lumps. Utilization of a higher proportion of quality agglomerates in the burden increases the productivity of the blast furnace. The sintering process increases the productivity and reduces the requirement of fuel, flux, and operation time.
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