A comparative study of pellets, sinter and mixed …

Commercially supplied iron ore pellets and sinter of size range 10–13 mm are utilised in the present study. Comparable to the utilisation in the …

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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 detail …

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

This research focused on the conditions in the BF shaft and how different temperatures combined with simulated gas compositions from the BF …

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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 ... of coke breeze for chromite fines is more because the sintering temperature is higher than that required for iron ore. A good sinter should have higher softening temperature and less difference between the softening temperature ...

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Mineralogical Aspects of Reducing Lump Iron Ore, Pellets, and …

Iron ore, pellets, and sinter were reduced with hydrogen at 800 °C to understand the degree of reduction and the mineralogical aspects. The weight loss of goethite and …

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Automated Optical Image Analysis of Iron Ore Sinter

Together with lump iron ore and pellets, iron ore sinter is one of the major feeds for the production of iron in the blast furnace and can constitute up to 70–85% of the total ferrous burden. Sinter is a heterogeneous mix of hematite (primary unreacted or secondary), ...

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Quantitative XRD analysis and evaluation of iron ore, sinter, and …

Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) is increasingly being used for the characterization of iron ore, sinter, and pellets thanks to the continuing developments in its instrumentation and …

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(PDF) Iron Ore Sintering: Process

sinter, 20% lump ore, and 15% pellets is found to have the. best results (Hsieh and Liu 1998). Pal et al. 1998, ... SFCA-I in synthetic iron ore sinter mixtures). Fan et al., 2011.

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Iron ore pellet disintegration mechanism in simulated shaft …

Iron ore pellets were reduced at 450–600 °C under load of 0.4 kg/cm 2 by simulating upper shaft furnace conditions [27], [28]. For each reduction experiment, iron ore pellets were heated to the required temperature and then reduced for 60 min in reducing gases (listed in Table 2) at flow rate of 0.6 m 3 /h. Subsequently, the reduced samples ...

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Agglomeration of Iron Ores

Iron ore powder agglomeration is closely related to direct iron reduction. In direct gas reduction ironmaking, pellet is used as a raw material, while an excessive amount of fuel is added into the mixture to produce metallized sinter (some iron-bearing raw materials are reduced to sinter of iron metal).

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Reduction of Iron Ore Pellets: A Microstructural Perspective?

Twenty different iron ore pellets, consisting primarily of Hematite (Fe2O3) phase, were subjected to 'simulated' reduction studies. A wide range of reduction time periods, Rt of 122 to 211 minutes, were obtained. Detailed microstructural characterizations were then conducted at different locations of ten selected specimens. The Rt did not relate with initial phase mix or …

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Iron Ore Sinter

4.2.2 Sinter. Low-temperature (< 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 majority of nuclei are hematitic, but they can also be any other …

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Iron Ore Pelletizing Process: An Overview

The 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 low-grade iron ore has been …

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Iron Ore Sinter

Sintering is the most economic and widely used agglomeration process for preparing iron ore fines for blast furnace use. The product of the sintering process is conveyed and charged into …

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

Sinter, lump ore, and iron ore pellets were used in experiments. The composition for all three materials is shown in Table 1. The total iron content (Fetot) and the oxidation …

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Modeling of degradation by impact of individual iron ore pellets

A sample of a direct reduction iron ore pellet has been collected from an industrial pelletizer in Brazil, which uses discs for pelletizing and travelling grate furnaces for induration. ... Modeling and simulation of mechanical degradation of iron ore sinter in a complex transfer chute system using the discrete element model and a particle ...

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IS 5842 (1986): Method for Measuring Bulk Density of Iron …

iron ore and iron ore agglomerates including sinters in a large container ( applicable for size over 40 mm )' have been suitably merged for the convenience ofthe user for measuring bulk density ofiron ores, pellets and sinter, irrespective ofthe sizes. 0.3 Knowledge ofbulk density ofores and agglomerates is often required

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Understanding the high-grade iron ore market

Iron ore lump and sinter fines are examples of DSOs, which are mined predominantly from areas such as Australia's Pilbara and Brazil's Carajas ... Only a few producers can supply iron ore pellets (and rarely lump) grades upward of 66-67% Fe suitable for the DR route. Iron ores that can

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Utilization of Biomass Pellets in the Iron Ore Sintering Process

3.1 Impact of Biopellet on Sintering Temperature Profiles. Figure 3 shows the temperature profile observed during iron ore sintering process at different proportions of biopellet. With an increase in biopellet the maximum temperature within the sinter bed reduces. In the presence of biomass, the water content required to granulate the sinter raw mix to a moisture …

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A forecast model of the sinter tumble strength in iron ore fines

As a traditional blast furnace (BF) iron-making burden, Iron ore sinter has numerous virtues in aspect of metallurgical and intrinsic properties [[1], [2], [3]].The sintering process of iron ore targets to achieve the consolidation of fine ore, containing the granulation of mixed powdery materials in a roller/disc, the ignition of solid fuel (coke fine/coals), the combustion of coke …

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Low Temperature Reduction Degradation Characteristics of Sinter, Pellet

The reduction degradation characteristics of typical sinter, pellet and lump ore were tested with the reducing gas conditions simulating two kinds of iron-making processes. The results show that, in the same condition of gas composition and temperature, the reduction degradation degree (RDI <3.15 mm ) of sinter is high, RDI <3.15 mm of lump ore ...

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Modeling and simulation of mechanical degradation of iron ore sinter …

Modeling and simulation of mechanical degradation of iron ore sinter in a complex transfer chute system using the discrete element model and a particle breakage model. ... [19] but was not found to be valid for iron ore pellets, largely owing to differences in shape between the original particles and their fragments [22]. In addition, the model ...

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Iron ore pelletization

Iron ore lump, sinter, and pellets comprise the main burden of modern blast furnaces. However, sinter and pellets are now the dominant blast furnace burden, because the natural lump supply has declined dramatically due to depletion of the world's high-grade competent iron ore resources. In addition, more iron ore concentrates are being produced ...

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Iron ore pellets and sustainable steel | Malvern Panalytical

The sinter solution. Manufacturers have already begun to focus on sinter as the focus to start cutting emissions, and pelletized iron ore offers an innovative solution. Pellets reduce the amount of coking coal required and improve furnace productivity, reducing CO 2 emissions in the process. By replacing sinter with high-grade pellets ...

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(PDF) Improving reducibility of iron ore pellets by …

In the experimental process, the green pellets were made from a mixture of bentonite, iron ore and the slag. The green pellets were sintered in the resistance heating furnace maintaining ...

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

A blast furnace (BF) is the dominant process for making iron in the world. The BF is charged with metallurgical coke and iron burden materials including iron ore pellets, sinter, …

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Improving properties of fluxed iron ore pellets with high-silica by

High basicity sinter is the main burden of blast furnace in China, ... Iron ore pellets have been proved to possess preferable size and shape, mechanical strength and metallurgical properties, compared with the sinters during the blast furnace ironmaking process [4, 5]. Under the background of green development, it is an inevitable trend to ...

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Low Temperature Reduction Degradation Characteristics of Sinter, Pellet

The iron ore samples are typical sinter, pellet and lump ore and their chemical compositions are listed in Table 1. The iron ore samples were put into the re- duction tube. The samples were mixed of 50% one with size distribution of 10-12. 5 mm and 50% of 12. 5- 16 mm, and the total mass of samples was 2 kg. ...

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Proportion of sinter/pellet and iron ore in burden mixture.

Download scientific diagram | Proportion of sinter/pellet and iron ore in burden mixture. from publication: Means to cope with the higher alumina burden in the blast furnace | The stability of the ...

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

Even though some research has considered all iron-bearing materials (sinter, iron ore pellets, and lump ore), the authors were not able to find researches made in temperatures which simulated the upper part of the BF shaft with a temperature range from 700 to 1000 C, with hydrogen and water vapor in the atmosphere and for all three material types.

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