Journal
MINERAL PROCESSING AND EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY REVIEW
Volume 38, Issue 4, Pages 215-227Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/08827508.2017.1288115
Keywords
Agglomeration; CAP process; flame front; HPS process; iron ore; MEBIOS process; sintering; softening and melting
Funding
- Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports via an FPU (Formacion del Profesorado Universitario) [FPU014/02436]
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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). The purpose of the sintering process is manufacturing a product with the suitable characteristics (thermal, mechanical, physical and chemical) to be fed to the blast furnace. The process has been widely studied and researched in the iron and steelmaking industry to know the best parameters that allow one to obtain the best sinter quality. The present article reviews the sintering process that the mixture follows, once granulated, when it is loaded onto the sinter strand. There, the sinter mixture is partially melted at a temperature between 1300-1480 degrees C and undergoes a series of reactions that forms the sinter cake to be loaded into the blast furnace to produce pig iron.
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