1 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.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 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.
The sintering process is a thermal agglomeration process, and it is accompanied by chemical reactions. In this process, a mixture of iron ore fines, flux, and coal particles is heated to about 1300 °C1480 °C in a sinter bed. The strength and reducibility properties of iron ore sinter are obtained by liquid phase sintering. The silicoferrite of calcium and aluminum (SFCA) is the main ...
In this article, the feasibility of this process was estimated from the point of the effects of MSWI fly ash addition on the iron ore sintering process, sinter mineral phase structure and ...
Sinter Making. The 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. The energy consumption ...
Sinter making is an intermediate step in valueadded chain for producing steel. Iron ore fines (−10 mm) is agglomerated to make it suitable blast furnace feed. In sintering process, ironore is partially reduced, and different fluxes are added to eliminate the undesirable elements in the slag.
Iron ore sintering Chemistry Physical characteristics Mineralogy Granulation Densification Introduction Sintering is a thermal process of converting loose fine particles into a solid coherent mass by heat and/or pressure without fully melting the particles to the point of melting.
By contrast, concentrations of Si in iron ores played a significant role in decreasing PCDD/F and PCB emissions in both sinter and dust samples. This study also confirmed the optimum size (< 1 mm ...
The 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.).
shows the iron ore blend mix proportion and mean particle size (MPS) for the iron ore blend for all the experiments. The high Fe and low LOI concentrate within the pellet nes compared to other iron ores can act as a suitable feed for the sinter making process. The amount of micro nes (− 150 µm) in pellet nes is % which is quite high
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 the granule adhering fines layer.
The sintering basic characteristics of iron ore play a key role in the process of sintering. In this study, the effects of B 2 O 3 on the assimilation characteristics, softening temperature, fluidity of liquid phase, compressive strength of bonding phase, and microstructure of the mixed fine powder of hematite and vanadiumtitanium magnetite (HVTM) are studied.
Ironbearing materials: The function of the ironbearing materials is to supply the iron, which represents about % of the hot metal. Major ironbearing materials are lump ore (contains 5265% Fe), sinter (contains 5265% Fe) and pellets (contains 6067% Fe); minor ironbearing materials are mill scale and steelmaking slag (which ...
BFBOF operation relies almost entirely on coal products, emitting ~70% of CO2 in the integrated plant (BF iron making). Hot iron is then charged to BOF to make steel HM (BOF steel making). An integrated BFBOF production plant also include process plants for coking, pelletizing, sinter, finishing, and associated power production.
Iron 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 ...
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The target basicity of iron ore sinter is set by blast furnace slag composition requirements, and therefore varies with the proportion of acid burden such as lump iron ore and pellets. Increasing the lump proportion of the burden will increase the target sinter basicity. The mineralogy of sinter produced with a range of basicity between and was analysed using optical point counting ...
The 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.
Agglomeration of ironore fines with particles sizes less than mm in a sinter plant is an integral part of the ironmaking process (Jankovic 2015; FernandezGonzalez et al. 2017).In a series of complex reactions between 1250 and 1350 °C, porous semimolten, centimetersized aggregates are formed containing ore particles (hematite and magnetite, constituting 40 to 70% vol.) cemented by a ...
Sintering is a process for agglomeration of iron ore fines to be useful material in blast furnace. In this process, raw materials like iron ore fines, coke breeze, limestone and dolomite fines are blended with water to create an adhesive mixture, and then placed on a continuous, moving grate.
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 furnace.
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