Reductants in iron ore sintering: A critical review

S Mohammad, S Patra, B Harichandan - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
The iron and steel industry are expanding to meet the steel demand. Raw materials used in
steel manufacturing gradually degrade in quality and quantity over time. Heating and power …

Research progress on multiscale structural characteristics and characterization methods of iron ore sinter

W Wang, X Chen, R Xu, J Li, W Shen… - Journal of Iron and Steel …, 2020 - Springer
At present, blast furnace ironmaking is still the main process for producing molten iron, and
sinters are the main raw material for blast furnace ironmaking. A sinter with good …

Modeling and simulation of dry grinding of coke breeze in rod mills

TSM Gama, RM de Carvalho, BP da Silva… - Minerals …, 2023 - Elsevier
Limited to less than 5 m in diameter and, as such, no longer found in large-scale circuits, rod
mills remain popular in medium-and small-scale plants, primarily owing to their ability to …

Particle size distribution models for metallurgical coke grinding products

L Colorado-Arango, JM Menéndez-Aguado… - Metals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Six different particle size distribution (Gates–Gaudin–Schuhmann (GGS), Rosin–Rammler
(RR), Lognormal, Normal, Gamma, and Swebrec) models were compared under different …

Long-term simulation of an industrial coke breeze grinding circuit

RM de Carvalho, TSM Gama, BP da Silva… - Minerals …, 2024 - Elsevier
One important application of rod milling is in size reduction of coke breeze, which is used as
solid combustible in iron ore sintering plants. The work applies modeling and simulation of …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigation and numerical modeling of strength properties of iron ore sinter based on pilot-scale pot tests and X-ray computed tomography

M Zhou, H Zhou - Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the most concerned quality in iron ore thermal agglomeration process is the
mechanical strength of sinter and thus the size degradation of sinter product which occurs …

Manganese sinter production with wood biomass application

L Kieush, M Boyko, A Koveria, M Yaholnyk… - Key Engineering …, 2020 - Trans Tech Publ
A large amount of finely dispersed manganese ore left after benefication operations or
blown out from the furnaces is unsuitable for direct use in electric furnaces and blast …

Effect of recycling blast furnace flue dust as pellets on the sintering performance

NA El-Hussiny, MEH Shalabi - Science of Sintering, 2010 - doiserbia.nb.rs
The Egyptian Iron and Steel Company generates a great amount of blast furnace flue dust.
The recovery of metals and carbon from this flue dust becomes a very important demand …

Review on alternative fuel application in iron ore sintering

A Kojo Alex, W Shijie, H Fang, X Wu… - Ironmaking & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Various kinds of fuel such as high rank coal and coke breeze have been adopted over the
years. However, their low combustion efficiency levels have given rise to the production of …

Combustion behavior of granulated coke breeze in iron ore sintering

L Xiong, Z Peng, F Gu, L Ye, L Wang, M Rao… - Powder Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigated the combustion behavior of coke breeze granulated with other raw
materials for iron ore sintering in a broad temperature range up to 1350° C in air and …