sintering of iron ores

Iron Ore Sintering: Process

Read this article. Sintering is a thermal agglomeration process that is applied to a mixture of iron ore fines, recycled ironmaking products, fluxes, slag …


Iron Ore 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 …


An efficient method for iron ore sintering with high-bed

It can be seen from Tables 1 and 2 that the blend with high iron grade has a high content of FeO (14.51 wt.%) because it consisted of 70 wt.% magnetite concentrate and 30 wt.% fine ore. The coke breeze has high fixed carbon content (83.37 wt.%) and low volatile matter content (1.57 wt.%). 2.2 Methods. The double-layer sintering process is …


Super-high bed sintering for iron ores

DOI: 10.1007/s42243-023-01117-x Corpus ID: 264796371; Super-high bed sintering for iron ores: inhomogeneous phenomena and its mechanism during mineralizing @article{Liu2023SuperhighBS, title={Super-high bed sintering for iron ores: inhomogeneous phenomena and its mechanism during mineralizing}, author={Hui-bo Liu …


(PDF) Biochars in Iron Ores Sintering Process: Effect on

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 ...


Application of deep learning in iron ore sintering process: a …

The sintering process is an intricate system with a protracted process flow. The steps in the manufacturing line are primarily composed of the ingredients and mixing process, the sintering operation process, and the treatment of the sintered ore [39, 40].2.2 Important parameters and characteristics of sintering process. As shown in Fig. 2, all …


Basics of Iron Ore Sintering | SpringerLink

In iron making process, sintering of iron ore fines is an integral step to utilize not only the ore fines but also to introduce a part of flux (limestone and dolomite) …


Super-high bed sintering for iron ores: inhomogeneous

The emissions of greenhouse gas was studied in sintering of iron ores by KM9106 flue gas analyzer. It indicates that the emission of COx reveals the coke combustion state during sintering, where ...


Determination method of high-temperature characteristics of iron …

The high-temperature characteristics of iron ores play important roles in optimizing ore proportion of sintering, which are tested by using iron-ore fines and analytical reagent CaO as raw materials. Two calculation methods of CaO addition amount based on binary basicity (basicity method) and n(Fe2O3)/n(CaO) (mole ratio method), …


Iron processing

The most widely distributed iron-bearing minerals are oxides, and iron ores consist mainly of hematite (Fe2O3), which is red; magnetite (Fe3O4), which is black; limonite or bog-iron ore (2Fe2O3·3H2O), which is brown; and siderite (FeCO3), which is pale brown. ... Iron ore sintering consists of heating a layer of fines until partial melting ...


Sintering: A Step Between Mining Iron Ore and …

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the sintering process converts fine-sized raw materials, including iron ore, …


Iron Ore Sintering: Process

Oxidized iron ores with a granulometry within 10 and 120 mm were loaded into the blast furnace until the fifties of the last century (Peacey and Davenport 1986). ... Sintering is a thermal agglomeration process that is applied to a mixture of iron ore fines, recycled ironmaking products, fluxes, slag-forming agents, and solid fuel (coke). ...


Influencing Factors and Effects of Assimilation Characteristic of Iron

As is well known, high-temperature characteristics of iron ores are identified as the basic indexes to evaluate the impact of iron ore properties on the sintering process as well as the output and ...


Iron Ore Sinter

Iron ore sintering. L. Lu, O. Ishiyama, in Iron Ore, 2015. 14.5 Conclusions. Sintering is the most economic and widely used agglomeration process to prepare iron ore fines for blast furnace use. Compared with pellets, production of sinter is cheaper, and compared with lump ore, fluxed sinter is often more reducible with better softening ...


Reducing Dust Emission During the Sintering of Iron Ores …

One of the main sources of dust-bearing emissions in the metallurgical industry is the sintering machine. An acoustic field was formed during the initial stage of heat treatment of a sintering-machine charge by using an acoustic radiator in the form of a Hartmann whistle installed in the vacuum chambers of the machine. The acoustic field …


Influence of iron ore properties on dioxin emissions during iron …

The moisture of iron ores means the water content held in the iron ores of unit mass, which is a critical parameter for granule formation in a sintering process.


Characteristics and Sintering Mechanisms of Iron Ores with …

In this study, a sintering test of high-alumina limonite from Indonesia, matched with an appropriate magnetite concentration, is performed. The sintering yield and quality index are effectively improved by optimizing the ore matching and regulating the basicity. For the optimal coke dosage of 5.8% and basicity of 1.8, the tumbling index of …


(PDF) Iron Ore Pelletizing Process: An Overview

Sinter feed 0.15 – 6.3 Agglomeration by sintering to be fed in blast furnaces. Pellet feed <0.15 Agglomeration by pelletizing to be fed to blast furnace and direct reduction. ... Iron Ores and ...


Characteristics and Sintering Mechanisms of Iron Ores with …

Characteristics and Sintering Mechanisms of Iron Ores with a High. Proportion of High-Al 2 O 3 Limonite. Zhikai Liang, Jun Chen, * Zhucheng Huang, * and Boyang Huang. Cite This: ACS Omega 2023, 8 ...


Effects of Alumina on Sintering Performance of Hematite Iron Ores

The chemical composition of iron ore fines, together with the thermal concitions that sinter blends are subjected to, plays an important role in forming the primary melt during the sintering ...


Recent advances in iron ore sintering

Sintering is the most economic and widely used agglomeration process to prepare iron ore fines for blast furnace use. Owing to the depleting reserves of traditional high grade iron ore, there …


Formation of NO and SO 2 in the Sintering Process of Iron Ores …

Ore A has goethite[FeO(OH)] as the main phase and contains 0.06 wt pct sulfur. But Ore B has Fe 2 O 3 as the main phase and contains 0.03 wt pct of sulfur. In the sinter mix condition, ores A and B were mixed in the weight ratio of 8 to 2, which simulated the use of various iron ores mixed in the actual sintering process.


(PDF) Lower SO2 Emissions in the Sintering Process Utilizing …

Iron ore sintering accounts for approximately 60% of total SO 2 emissions from the iron and steel industry (Qie et al., 2017; Zhao et al., 2014), which contributes to about 7.5% of SO 2 emissions ...


Iron ore sintering

Sintering is the most economic and widely used agglomeration process to prepare iron ore fines for blast furnace use. Compared with pellets, production of …


A Novel Sintering Process for Porous Iron Ore Sintering …

3.2 Sintering Behavior of both Type of Iron Ores (either Porous or Dense Type) The sintering process parameters and sinter qualities obtained through conventional and pre-processed iron ore with calcined lime routes are presented in graphical form in Fig. 6. The pot sinter results exhibit clear and distinct differences in the results of dense ...


Iron Ore Agglomeration Technologies | IntechOpen

Until the 1950s of the last century, the oxidized iron ores that were loaded into the blast furnace had granulometries within 10 and 120 mm. However, the depletion of high-grade iron ore sources has …


Super-high bed sintering for iron ores: problems …

To ascertain the problems of super-high bed sintering, ten sintering machines with the areas of 265, 280, 360, 550 and 660 m2and bed depth above 900 mm were sampled and analyzed. The results showed that problems were mainly shown in the unevenness of chemical composition, macrostructure, mechanical strength and metallurgical performance.


Sintering Properties and Optimal Blending Schemes of Iron Ores …

In order to obtain good sintering performance, it is important to understand sintering properties of iron ores. Sintering properties including chemical composition, granulation and high-temperature behaviors of ores from China, Brazil and Australia. Furthermore, several indices were defined to evaluate sintering properties of iron ores. …


Effect of alumina occurrence on sintering performance of iron ores …

Iron ores always contain several forms of alumina, which may have different effect on sintering performance. In this paper, sinter pot tests were systematically conducted with various alumina types and contents by means of alumina additives substituting for the corresponding types of alumina, and the relevant action mechanism …


Comprehensive evaluation of sintering basic characteristics of iron …

The iron ores with high SiO 2 content or high crystal water content should be reasonably used with other iron ores due to their bad sintering properties. 2.2 Experimental methods. Pure CaO and iron ores were dried at 105 °C for 3 h and ground to a size of less than 147 μm.