iron ore pellets versus sinter in blast furnace

Influence of Sinter and Pellets on Blast Furnaces Operation

In comparison with the sinter, iron ore pellets possess a number of advantages: . 1. They have higher iron content; they are well suited for transportation and can be hauled for …


Investigating the Effect of the Iron Ore Pellet Addition on …

The efficient operation of a blast furnace requires burden materials with high softening temperatures and a narrow softening–melting range. This leads to the formation of a thinner cohesive zone in the lower part of the furnace, which improves permeability. In this study, softening–melting tests were conducted on pellets with different levels of …


Iron ore pellets for blast furnace

Iron ore pellets are a man-made iron-riched ore. The pellet production method was invented in Sweden in 1912, and then began to be used in the United States in 1946 by shaft furnace. It was originally developed primarily for the efficient use of taconite mines. Taconite ore only contains about 35% iron, and this low-grade iron ore can only …


Utilization of Pellet Fines in the Iron Ore Sintering …

the iron ore nes and the pellet nes used for the sinter pot trials are shown in Tables 2 and 3 respectively. Table 4 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


Improved iron-ore sinter for blast furnaces | Steel in Translation

Abstract. Technology has been developed for the production of fluxed local sinter and pellets with residual carbon for blast-furnace use. The new products have better metallurgical characteristics than existing materials.


Introduction to Iron ore Pellets and Pelletizing processes

Iron ore pellet is a kind of agglomerated fines which has better tumbling index when compared with the iron ore and it can be used as a substitute for the iron ore lumps both in the BF and for DRI production. Pellets have good reducibility since they have high porosity (25 % to 30 %). Normally pellets are reduced considerably faster than …


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

Herein, the reducibility of the iron ore pellet, sinter, and lump ore in the BF shaft are focused on. The experiments are conducted isothermally with a blast furnace simulator (BFS) high-temperature furnace at four different temperatures (700, 800, 900, and 1000 C) for 300 min. The experimental atmosphere consists of CO, CO2, H2, H2O, …


Improved iron-ore sinter for blast furnaces | Steel in …

Abstract. Technology has been developed for the production of fluxed local sinter and pellets with residual carbon for blast-furnace use. The new products have …


Reduction characteristics of cold-agglomerated pellets in blast furnace

There is a significant and necessary drive towards reducing CO 2 emissions produced by iron and steelmaking industries. Binding Solutions Ltd has developed a technology to contribute to the reduction of CO 2 in the short and long term, by introducing a cold-bonded iron ore pellet to the furnace burden. Binding Solutions' cold …


Estimation of Iron Ore Pellet Softening in a Blast …

Iron ore pellets are commonly used as iron burden materials in blast furnaces. The pellets are small and hard iron ore balls. Their diameter is usually 10–16 mm. The pellets are hot-bonded in order to …


A comparative study of pellets, sinter and mixed ferrous …

Characteristic behaviour of the iron ore pellet (type 1) bed under blast furnace conditions. SiO 2 -CaO-FeO-(5%) MgO phase diagram with slag liquidus temperature projections (Factsage).


A comparative study of pellets, sinter and mixed …

Comparable to the utilisation in the industrial blast furnace, two types of olivine fluxed pellets (types 1 and 2) and one type of iron ore sinter are mixed in 40:20:40 ratio to form a ferrous raw material bed.


Blast Furnace Performance Under Varying Pellet Proportion …

As a promising method to strengthen the blast furnace smelting and to realize reduced fuel operation, high-proportion pellet charging has become the practice of BF ironmaking. Use of pellet gives rise to uniform bed permeability in comparison with iron ore or sinter. This leads to better gas–solid contact resulting in higher productivity at …


Improved iron-ore pellets for blast furnaces | Steel in …

A production technology for iron-ore materials with improved metallurgical characteristics is developed and tested. The following materials are considered: fluxed pellets containing residual carbon; fluxed local agglomerates from concentrates with a wide range of silica content; local agglomerates with an elevated iron content; local …


Understanding the high-grade iron ore market

Blast furnace vs direct-reduction ironmaking – horses for courses There are two main technologies for converting iron ore (iron oxide) into metallic iron: the blast furnace (BF), which is by far the most common, and the direct-reduction (DR) route, which accounts for just over 100 million tonnes per year (tpy), or around 8% of global primary iron


High lump use in the blast furnace – implications for …

Figure 1. Proportions of sinter, pellet and lump used in blast furnaces around the globe [1-5]. * Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected], telephone: +61 2 4033 9216 ...


Iron ore sintering

Like other sintering processes, iron ore sintering converts iron ore fines of often − 8 mm sizing into larger agglomerates, namely, sinter, between 5 and 50 mm particle size, which possess the physical and metallurgical characteristics and gas permeability required for efficient blast furnace operation.As shown in Figure 14.1, iron ore sintering …


Blast furnace ironmaking and its ferrous burden quality …

The integrated iron and steelmaking route involves blast furnace (BF) ironmaking followed by basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steelmaking. The BF uses sinter, pellets, and lump ore as iron-bearing raw materials, and coke and pulverized coal as fuel and reducing agents to produce hot metal with consistent quality for the BOF process.


Fluxed Local Sinters—Agglomerated Iron Ore Mono Raw Material for Blast

For efficient operation of a blast furnace, a completely fluxed (CaO/SiO 2 = 1.2–1.5 for different melting conditions) agglomerated (10–60 mm) iron ore material with the highest economically feasible iron content is required, uniform in chemical composition and size, preferably with the maximum permissible residual carbon content for the production …


Optimum Pellet Basicity Desirable for Blast Furnace Operation

The stability of blast furnace process depends upon the quality of raw materials charged into the furnace. Among iron-bearing materials, pellets are an important feed material for the blast furnace operation. However, pellets exhibit swelling inside the blast furnace due to the high temperature inside the furnace, which causes dissociation …


Effect of adding limestone on the metallurgical properties of iron ore …

Acid iron ore pellets with 4.6 wt.% SiO 2 manufactured by Severstal Resources in Karelia were used in the investigations. Both test pellets were produced in a laboratory-scale pelletizing drum and fired in sample baskets set in the middle of the sintering belt on the same production line as commercial blast furnace pellets.


Raw materials

The sinter plant turns iron ore into sinter, which is the optimal product for the blast furnace. 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 …


Study of Softening and Melting Behaviour of Iron Ore Sinter and Pellets

Effect of nut coke addition with ferrous burden (pellet and sinter mixture) is experimentally investigated under simulated blast furnace conditions. Nut coke mixing degree was varied (0, 20 and 40 ...


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 ...


Blast Furnace Performance Under Varying Pellet …

The blast furnace (BF) is a counter-current gas–solid chemical reactor in which iron-bearing materials, namely iron ore, sinter and pellet and fuel mainly coke, are charged from the top of the ...


Blast furnace ironmaking and its ferrous burden …

The BF uses sinter, pellets, and lump ore as iron-bearing raw materials, and coke and pulverized coal as fuel and reducing agents to produce hot metal with …


Iron ore pellets as a solution to steel—making raw

Table 2 Characterisation of iron ore pellets and sinter ores. Full size table. ... But the scenario has since undergone a change; pellets now constitute a part of iron ore burden to the blast furnaces of major steel plants. Therefore, the quality of pellets for use in rotary DRI kiln need not be the same as blast furnaces requirement. ...


The Sintering Process of Iron Ore Fines – IspatGuru

The process of sintering is basically a pre-treatment 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 ...


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

It is found that lump ore has lowest reduction rate in all test conditions, and at lower temperatures iron ore pellets reduce faster than sinter, and this is reversed at higher temperatures. Furthermore, the reduction rate of sinter and iron ore pellets …


Comparison of Sinter and Pellet Usage in an Integrated …

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    WEBDirectly fed to blast furnace and direct reduction: Sinter feed: 0.15–6.3: Agglomeration by sintering to be fed in blast furnaces: …