Sintering 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 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 18203695377The 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 ...
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 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377H 2rich gas has been widely regarded as a promising energy to substitute fossil energy in iron ore sintering process for CO 2 reduction. This investigation mainly focused on researching the influences of H 2 rich gas injection parameters over sintering bed on sintering performance, and elucidated the potential function mechanism through both ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Feng et al. [44,45] studied the waste heat recovery and gas flow in vertical tank for sinter. Zhou et al. [46] studied the influence of sintering parameters of different sintering layers on NOx emission in iron ore sintering process. Zhou et al. [47] and Tian et al. [48] studied the waste heat recovery and heat exchange problems.
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 18203695377High grade iron ore less than 10% of the total reserves. ROM iron ore with Fe less than 58 60% discarded as waste. After beneficiation iron ore availability can improve by about 50%. Steel community and the country demand technological solutions for utilising low grade ores. The technology task that would be imperative: 1.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The total reaction involved in the process of sintering is the sum of a number of reactions which involve reactions in heating zone, reactions in sintering zone and reactions in cooling zone. These reactions are illustrated schematically for typical sintering of a limefluxed haematite ore in Fig. 11. Fig. : Development of Minerals during ...
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 ...
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 18203695377Iron ore sintering entails high energy consumption and also produces significant pollution, responsible for the highest share of CO 2 emission, as well as SO 2 and NOx emissions, in the iron and steel production processes. 5 The SO 2 and NO X emissions from this process account for ∼70% and ∼40% of the total iron and steel industry emissions, respectively. 6 Some researchers have used ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sintering is a process where a mixture of ore, flux and coke is agglomerated (agglomerated) in the sinter plant to produce suitable sintered products in terms of composition, quality and ...
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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.
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 18203695377Sintering process is developed mainly to utilize under size of lump ore called iron ore fines; which otherwise, could not be charged directly in blast furnace. In order to conserve these, otherwise waste material, they are compacted together and made into lumps by a process known as is defined as the agglomeration of the ...
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 18203695377research: 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 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 18203695377During 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.
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