Iron 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 18203695377Iron 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 waste ( Menad et al., 2006, Remus et al., 2013 ).
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 18203695377Traditionally, fine ores are treated either by the process of sintering and/or by pelletizing to prepare an agglomerate with suitable metallurgical characteristics for ironmaking processes. 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 18203695377Sintering is a crucial process in integrated steel plants where a mixture of iron ores, fluxes, and coke are fused to produce a sinter. During sintering, various mineral phases crystallize and bind the grains together, resulting in a strong sinter.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sintering facilitates feed of iron ore fines in blast furnace, blended with fluxes and coking coal / coke. The depletion of iron ore quality poses new challenges to steel makers. There is a need to find alternate solutions maintaining optimal composition and metallurgical properties of the sinter to enable the production of highquality hot ...
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 18203695377Accurate computational models of sintering behavior would assist to enhance sinter quality and are anticipated to play a role in yield prediction. Sintering is a vital process in the manufacturing of iron and steel. As a consequence, the primary objective of these models will be a thorough simulation of mass and heat transport during the sintering process. In this paper, based on the ...
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 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 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 ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The sintering process is an important production link in the iron and steel industry, and its energy consumption accounts for about 1116% of the total energy consumption of the industry, and the pollutants emitted by sintering account for about 50% of the total emissions of steel enterprises [1, 2].In April 2019, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China ...
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 182036953771. Introduction. The rapid depletion of highgrade iron ores, as well as the tremendous demand of iron and steel industries, has given rise to the urgent need for global attention on the effective utilization of refractory iron ore [1].In China, a large reserve of refractory iron ore lacks the appropriate treatment because of its properties such as low iron grade, complex composition and fine ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sintering is the most economic and widely used agglomeration process to prepare iron ore fines for blast furnace use. In this chapter, the sintering process is first described to identify the key steps of the process, that is, granulation and thermal densification.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The basic hightemperature properties of iron ore play a crucial role in optimizing sintering and ore blending, but the testing process for these properties is complex and has significant lag time, which cannot meet the actual needs of ore blending. A prediction model for the basic hightemperature properties of iron ore fines was thus proposed based on a combination of machine learning ...
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 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 18203695377In the iron ore sintering process iron ore fines and flux materials are agglomerated to produce porous lump that is suitable for charging into the blast furnace. The production of iron ore sinters with good reducibility, high mechanical strength and high softening temperature, is important in order to achieve high productivity, high thermal and ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Sintering, which is also called 'frittage,' is the process of forming a solid mass of material through heat and pressure without melting to the point of liquefaction. This process involves the atoms in materials diffusing across the particle boundaries and fusing together into one piece. Sintering occurs naturally in mineral deposits, and ...
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 182036953771 Introduction The sinter mix contains various materials such as iron ore, flux, solid fuel, plant return sinter fines, plant generated wastes, etc., where the majority of it is iron ore.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377ABSTRACT. Sintering is a process of agglomeration of iron ore fines, fluxes, recycled products, slagforming elements, and coke with the purpose of achieving an agglomerated product with the suitable composition, quality and granulometry to be used as burden material in the blast furnace.
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