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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MINERALS METALLURGY AND MATERIALS
Volume 20, Issue 7, Pages 636-644Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s12613-013-0777-5
Keywords
rotary hearth furnaces; direct reduction process; dust; ore pellets; dezincification; numerical methods
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- National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China [2012CB720405]
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A mathematical model was established to describe the direct reduction of pellets in a rotary hearth furnace (RHF). In the model, heat transfer, mass transfer, and gas-solid chemical reactions were taken into account. The behaviors of iron metallization and dezincification were analyzed by the numerical method, which was validated by experimental data of the direct reduction of pellets in a Si-Mo furnace. The simulation results show that if the production targets of iron metallization and dezincification are up to 80% and 90%, respectively, the furnace temperature for high-temperature sections must be set higher than 1300 degrees C. Moreover, an undersupply of secondary air by 20% will lead to a decline in iron metallization rate of discharged pellets by 10% and a decrease in dezincing rate by 13%. In addition, if the residence time of pellets in the furnace is over 20 min, its further extension will hardly lead to an obvious increase in production indexes under the same furnace temperature curve.
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