Comparison of physical properties of oxidative sintered pellets

The physical properties of oxidative sintered pellets produced from typical South African UG2 ore are compared with the physical properties of pellets produced with conventional South African ...

(PDF) Iron Ore Sintering: Process

The purpose of the sintering process is manufacturing a product with the suitable characteristics (thermal, mechanical, physical and chemical) for being fed to the blast furnace. …

Dangerous Emissions Control and Reduction in Sinter Plants

The goal is the recognition of optimized design as a function of the strong reduction of dioxins, furans, NOx, and SOx coupled with high productivity of the plant. ... Those from sinter plants dominate the overall emissions for most of the pollutants. The sintering of raw material is certainly one of the top steps in the steelmaking process for ...

Basics of Iron Ore Sintering

The iron oxide fines containing small amount of pellet fines have also been used to produce quality sinters. 2 The ... design of a batch type pan sinter plant was developed and the units were installed at industry site. The same is also applicable to Ferro-chrome and Ferro-manganese industries. A 4 m 2 area circular (2.25 m diameter) pan with ...

Reaction Behaviors of Mixed Burdens Consisting of …

All of them were manufactured in commercial plants and sieved to 10–15 mm for sintered ores and to 10–12.5 mm for pellets. The basket was made using steel wires and had a diameter of 65 mm and length of 200 mm. Three baskets ... identified as sintered ores, pellets, and cohesive masses by their appearances, and subsequently analyzed for ...

Reduction of Iron Ore Pellets, Sinter, and Lump Ore …

Reduction degrees as a function of time in all studied temper-atures (700, 800, 900, and 1000 C) for iron ore pellets, sinter, and lump ore are shown in Figure 3. It is shown that the lump ore has the slowest reduction rate at each studied temperature. Pellets were the fastest to reduce in 700 C, but already at 800 C,

Use of Artificial Neural Network to Predict the Yield of …

sinter has not been reached its optimum level, a careful approach to improve both quality and quantity of sinter will ensure consistency in quality of hot metal. The productivity of sinter plant is affected by different parameters which in turn affect the productivity of Blast furnace [2]. In other words, if one can improve sinter plant

Utilization of Pellet Fines in the Iron Ore Sintering Process

The sinter plant that converts the iron ore fines into a desirable blast furnace feed, offers an avenue for recycling wastes. One of the several wastes that are produced at an iron and steel plant is the undersized pellet fines, which cannot be directly used in iron making. The present study evaluated the influence of these pellet fines on the sintering process. 5 …

Introduction to Iron ore Pellets and Pelletizing processes

Induration of green pellets consists of three main steps namely (i) drying of green pellets, (ii) firing of pellets at around 1300 deg C to sinter the iron oxide particles, and (iii) cooling of hot pellets before discharging. During drying (temperature range of 180 deg C to 350 deg C), moisture content of the green pellet is evaporated.

Utilization of Pellet Fines in the Iron Ore Sintering …

Abstract The sinter plant that converts the iron ore nes into a desirable blast furnace feed, oers an avenue for recy - cling wastes. One of the several wastes that are …

(PDF) Iron Ore Pelletizing Process: An Overview

vertical-shaft-kilns for firing the pellets. Plant capacities were between 10,000 and 60,000 tons/ ... Sinter feed 0.15 ... Viscosity as a function of. pH and temperature, adsorption.

First pellets produced at JSW Steel's new Vijayanagar plant

All of the company's integrated steel plants feature sinter and pellet plants designed by either or Outotec or their predecessors. A sinter plant at the site in Salem (formerly Siscol) has been operating since 1992. In Dolvi, Outotec supplied the technology for two pellet plants, one of which was installed by in 2012 and the ...

(PDF) Fabrication of Sintered Annular Fuel Pellet for …

Finally, thermal conductivity as a function of temperature has revealed that sintered ThO2-SiC composites showed an increase of up to 56% in thermal conductivity compared to pristine ThO2 pellets ...

COMPARISON OF SINTER AND PELLET USAGE IN AN …

Sinter and pellets are agglomerated forms of iron ore, both suitable for use as blast furnace burden materials. The principle difference between sinter and pellets arises from the type of …

IMGS INTENSIVE MIXING AND GRANULATION SYSTEM …

Sinter Plant: New sinter plant projects and as well as a add-on package within existing sinter plants of various sizes. FUNCTION ... fine iron ores, ultrafine ores/pellet feed, additives, dusts, solid fuels, return fines, and recycled materials from the steel plant) are continuously fed into a high-speed intensive

Virtual Sinter ® : Digital Twin for Integrated Sinter Plants

The Virtual Sinter ® digital twin software tool is developed to address operational challenges faced by sinter plant operators and to assist and advise them on day-to-day operation of the plant. The schematic of Virtual Sinter ® is shown in Fig. 2.Virtual Sinter ® interacts with an actual sinter plant in real time, utilizes the model-based monitoring, diagnosis and optimization (M2DO ...

COMPARISON OF SINTER AND PELLET USAGE IN AN …

Hot metal production using sinter and pellets in the blast furnace is compared, considering aspects like; blast furnace productivity, environmental performance, solid waste …

Energy and exergy analyses of pellet smelting systems of …

Qualified sintered pellets are placed on the bottom of steel belt which are commonly referred as bottom sintered pellets. The unsintered pellets are placed on the top of the bottom sintered pellets which move together with the belt (see steel belt sintering in Fig. 1). The residual heat of exhaust gas and the combustion of surface coke and ...

USE OF SINTERED PELLETS IN PRODUCTION OF HIGH …

Meantime FACOR had been closely watching the technical development of use of sintered pellets in Outokumpu and SRC Processes which need still lower specific power. But the high capital requirement for a pelletisation plant kept FACOR from introducing pellets feed to their Ferro chrome furnaces. So this was postponed to be adopted in future.

Raw materials

Sinter is made by burning a mix of iron ore powder, fluxes and recycled substances from the steel plant to create an open-grained, consistent substance. The sinter is then crushed, cooled and screened for dust. Sometimes, iron ore is supplied in the form of iron ore pellets.

Iron Ore Pelletizing Process: An Overview

vertical-shaft-kilns for firing the pellets. Plant capacities were between 10,000 and 60,000 tons/ year [1]. The world installed pelletizing capacity is currently estimated to be 480.7 million tons/year [2]. ... Sinter feed 0.15 6.3 Agglomeration by sintering to be fed in blast furnaces

Recent progress in sustainable and energy-efficient technologies …

Iron ore sinter plants are energy-intensive 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 …

Sinter Plant Operations: Raw Materials | SpringerLink

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 …

RECOMMENDED GUIDELINE FOR IRON & STEEL SECTOR …

Sinter Plant (Sinter) Coke Plant (Coke) SMS Hot Metal O2 Torpedo Steam Coal Injection Cold Air Stoves Hot Air Charge Raw material Storage Stock House Skip/Belt SGDP Granulated Cinder SLAG Ladle Pellet Plant (Pellet) Doc. No: RG/04, Rev no: 00 Page 3 of 8 The blast furnace gas (BFG) generated in the BF is cleaned through a

Sinter Plant Design, Engineering, Construction | M HEAVY …

A Sinter plant in a steel plant is the final operation in a series of measures to prepare iron ore for blast furnace smelting.A sinter plant is an enterprise with a complicated technological process for producing the final product – agglomerate or sinter.. Agglomeration is a process of sintering fine ores and concentrates by fuel combustion in a layer of sintered material.

Iron Ore Pelletizing Process: An Overview

Pellets are balls formed by rolling moist concentrates and fines iron ores of different mineral- ogical and chemical composition, with the addition of additives and binder, in a horizontal drum …

Recycling pre-oxidized chromite fines in the oxidative sintered pellet

a function of location within the pellet was ... sintering-plant [accessed 24 October 2017]. ... The physical properties of oxidative sintered pellets produced from typical South African UG2 ore ...

(PDF) Iron Ore Sintering: Process

sinter plant in the NSSMC Kashima Steel Works, and it has ... Sinter and pellets are used together in blast furnace ... Phase composition and sinter quality indices as a function of maximum.

Utilization of Pellet Fines in the Iron Ore Sintering …

the sinter, and aect the performance of the sinter plant [8 ]. In the present investigation, an attempt was made to understand the inuence of these pellet nes on the sinter-ing process. Lab scale trials were conducted using a pot sin-ter setup, by varying the pellet nes from 0 to 50% in the iron ore blend to understand the extent upto which ...

(PDF) Iron ore sintering. Part 1. Theory and …

Sintering is a process by which a mixture of iron ores, fl uxes and coke is agglomerated in a sinter plant to manufacture a sinter product of a suitable composition, quality and granulometry to be ...