Iron ore is the source of primary iron for the world's iron and steel industries. It is therefore essential for the production of steel, which in turn is essential to maintain a strong industrial base. Almost all (98%) iron ore is used in steelmaking. Iron ore is mined in about 50 countries. The seven largest of these producing countries ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377T he Environmental Protection Agency explains that the sintering process converts finesized raw materials, including iron ore, coke breeze, limestone, mill scale, and flue dust, into an agglomerated product, sinter, of suitable size for charging into the blast furnace.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Iron ore granulation has been introduced into the steel production process since iron ore agglomeration was proven to have better metallurgical properties and more efficient iron production than natural iron ore 6,7). Both sintering and pelletizing contain iron ore granulation process, with the former preparing iron ore, fuel, flux, water and ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Iron ore sintering was a hightemperature process that preparing lump burden for further ironmaking. During this process, iron ore fines, recycled ironbearing materials, fluxes, and solid fuel including coke breeze, anthracite, etc., were thoroughly mixed and then agglomerated into finished sinter under 1300 °C provided by the combustion of ...
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 18203695377ABSTRACT. Sintering is an agglomeration process that fuses iron ore fines, fluxes, recycled products, slagforming elements and coke. The purpose of sintering is to obtain a product with suitable composition, quality and granulometry to be used as burden material in the blast furnace.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In actual sinter production, batching is a complex metallurgical and mathematical problem. Aiming at the problem of the precising batching of iron ore in the process of sintering batching, an automatic batching algorithm based on a Cartesian product to batch sinter was proposed for the first time. When the algorithm is applied to the sintering batching process, a complete batching scheme can ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The iron ore in the sintering dust was mainly magnetite, a small amount of hematite and gangue. Moreover, a small amount of quicklime also existed in the sintering dust due to using it as a solvent for the sintering process (Wu et al., 2022b). The peak intensity of metallic iron rose with the temperature, while peaks of magnetite and hematite ...
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 main criterion of the sintering process is the quality ... The evaluation of the properties of iron ores shows that the best ores are from Brazil, Australia and Venezuela, Table 2 [3]. They have a suitable particle size ... Sinter grade ores and concentrates are characterized as iron ore raw materials with the required granulometry ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377I. RuizBustinza of Mining and Energy Engineers (UPM) J. Mochón Carmen GonzálezGasca European University of Madrid Abstract and Figures Sintering is an agglomeration process that fuses...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377When switching to sinter by using combined fuel, the blast furnace productivity increases by 1014%, and the specific fuel consumption in coke per unit of iron made decreases by 8%. Sinterediron ore has been the main raw material type for blast furnaces, with its share in ironmaking being 6070% [ 1 ]. This production will continue for a ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The article presents results of the research on the use of chars produced during pyrolysis of residual biomass as a substitutional fuel in the iron ore sintering process. Such an approach allows to implement circular economy and industrial symbiosis to the iron and steel branches. The effect of the substitution of conventional coke breeze fuel used in sintering on final sinter quality and ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The chemical compositions of raw material for minisintering are summarized in ... as well as the platesheettype. The corrosion structure of magnetite and the columnaraciculartype is the best microstructure with the highest strength. ... and Melting characteristics of iron ore fine during sintering process, J. Iron Steel ...
WhatsApp: +86 182036953772 Citations Abstract The raw materials for an integrated steelworks can be classified into four categories, which are iron ores, fluxes, fuels, and reverts. The characteristics of these raw materials strongly affect the metallurgical properties of iron ore sinter and sinter plant performance.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The raw materials used are five kinds of iron ores and quicklime. Table 1 shows different iron ores' size distribution and bulk density (Zhou et al., 2020a).The five iron ores used in this study came from Australia and Brazil and had a wide size distribution ranging from 0 to 10 mm. Table 2 shows the chemical composition of each raw material. The iron ore samples were dried in an oven at 105 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377An efficient sintering process was proposed based on the autocatalytic denitrification of the sintered ore. The catalytic denitrification of sintered ore, the effect of doublelayer ignition sintering process on the emission reduction in nitrogen oxides, and the impact on the quality of sintered ore were studied. The results showed that the catalyzed reduction of NO with sinter ore as a ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377She, J.; Wang, C. An intelligent integrated optimization system for the proportioning of iron ore in a sintering process. J. Process Control. 2014, 24, 182202. [Google Scholar] Ramos, ; Kasai, E. Numerical Simulation Model of the Iron Ore Sintering Process Directly Describing the Agglomeration Phenomenon of Granules in the Packed Bed.
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.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Mineralization testing process included ore matching, agglomeration, roasting and mineralogical analysis. Iron ores and fluxes (dolomite, limestone, and quicklime) were mixed to a feed, which then was used to produce sinter with SiO 2 %, basicity (CaO/SiO 2) and MgO %, the proportions of each material were shown in Table principle of ore matching for adhesion layer was ...
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