Sintering 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 Relationship Between Mining and Sintering. Sinter is the primary feed material for making iron in a blast furnace, and we have previously written about sintering and how it is a step between mining ore and steelmaking. The only source of primary iron is iron ore, but before all that iron ore can be turned into steel, it must go through the ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The iron ore sintering process is the second largest energy consuming process next to the blast furnace in overall integrated steel plant value chain. Sintering consists of two moving beds, namely a sintering machine, and an annular cooler. Once the sintering is completed, hot sinter is discharged on the annular cooler and air is blown from the bottom with blowers for cooling the sinter to ...
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 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 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 18203695377At present, only imported iron ore fines are used in Jingtang sintering plant. And it is hard to control the particle size of imported iron ores. Different iron ore fines are mixed properly before charged to sintering machine. It is an important means to solve this problem to seek the particle size matching between solid fuel and iron ore fines.
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 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. The fines resulting from the concentration process must be agglomerated for use in iron and steelmaking. This chapter shows the status of the pelletizing process ...
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 18203695377At the sintering machine only about 50 kg of fossil fuel per ton of sinter are used. Thus, new technologies are welcome with the focus of neutralizing the carbon emissions. The iron ore sinter process is an important operation unit in the integrated steel plant.
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 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 NOx emissions. ... (2022) Characterization and in situ abatement of SOx, NOx, and PCDD/Fs in iron ore sinter machine wind legs. J ...
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 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 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 18203695377The 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 18203695377Sintering of iron ores is an enormous energyintensive and resources consuming process. Introducing a selective waste gas recirculation (SWGR) to the sintering process reduces the energy consumption, stack gas volume flow, and sulfur dioxide emissions of an iron sinter production. Simulating this complex process in flowsheet simulations of ...
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 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 iron ore fines (− 10 mm) are agglomerated using Dwight Lloyed sintering machine. The iron ore fines and coke breeze fines mix with moisture is fed on the sinter bed which is ignited by a gas burner to initiate sintering process. The hot sintered ore is discharged at the end of the machine.
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.).
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In this study, based on the actual production data of the 360 m2 sintering machine of Hegang Steel, TFe, SFZS, and ZGZS were selected as the sinter ore quality evaluation indexes, and the input ...
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 18203695377In this scenario, the world pelletizing capacity grew from 350 Mt/year in 2000 to more than 600 Mt/year in 2020. ron ore products and the corresponding use in iron making. (4) Typical ...
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