Journal
IRONMAKING & STEELMAKING
Volume 36, Issue 5, Pages 321-326Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1179/174328109X407112
Keywords
Stamp charge; Cokemaking; Stampability; Coal moisture; Grain size; Grindability; Mathematical model
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- Research Directorate of the European Commission: Research Programme of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel, Project: Maximising Carbon Utilisation through Improved Raw Material Selection and Process Control [RFCR-CT-200600002]
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Coking of coal blends using high volatile coals with poor caking properties to produce a high quality coke for blast furnace application can be achieved by compacting the whole coal blend before pyrolysis in the so called stamp charge operation. Using stamp charging not only improves the flexibility of the coke making plant using cost efficient raw materials, but oven throughput is also increased. Therefore, in recent years, densification of coals has been introduced even to coals with good carbonisation properties when heat recovery ovens are used. At the Department for Mechanical Process Engineering and Solids Processing of the Technical University Berlin, the two subprocesses, densification and strengthening during stamping, were theoretically and experimentally investigated. The research work aims on the development of an integrated mathematical model, allowing the calculation of cake density and strength of the coal cake for a given coal blend depending on the stamping energy. The first part of this paper defines the overall process objectives and presents results from systematic investigations of the effects of several coal properties on the so called stampability as the integral model parameter for compacting. Surface moisture, coal granulometry and mechanical properties have significant influence on the densification. The incorporation of these parameters into the model allows the differentiated calculation of the cake density.
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