Increasing the efficiency of the furnace depending on the operating conditions of the furnaces. Part 2. The technology of joint loading of lumpy anthracite and fluxed local specs
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.62911/ete.2024.02.01.09Keywords:
pulverized coal; anthracite; sinter; pellets; fluxed local specs; coke consumptionAbstract
The article analyzes the reasons for the growing research interest in the technology of loading lump anthracite of different fractions into a blast furnace to increase its efficiency. It is shown that loading blast furnaces with additional lump anthracite can be an effective way to improve the technical and economic indicators of their operation, especially on furnaces that work without the technology of pulverized fuel injection. It was noted that the traditional directions of development of iron smelting technology in blast furnaces practically mastered. At the same time, the problem of improving the quality of iron ore raw materials has not yet been fully resolved. A conclusion was made about the need for a new type of iron ore raw material, which would combine the best properties of agglomerate and pellets and would not have their negative features. A number of technologies for the production of a new type of iron ore raw material have been developed - fluxed local specs from iron ore concentrates of various degrees of enrichment, with an increased iron content compared to agglomerate and pellets and with an increased residual carbon content. A comparison of technological parameters of production and metallurgical characteristics of agglomerate, pellets and the developed unfluxed mono-raw material was made. If two technologies are combined: loading of lump anthracite into the blast furnace for partial replacement of coke and mono-raw material, namely, local specs with a high content of iron and residual carbon, then analytical estimates show that, for example, when loading into furnace No. 9 with useful volume of 5000 m3 up to 70 kg/t of lump anthracite, blowing up to 60 m3/t of natural gas and using local specs with a residual carbon of 2.85 % and an iron content of 70.45 %, it is possible to reduce coke consumption to 322.68 kg/t of cast iron and increase furnace productivity to 12733 t/day, which can be compared with the best indicators achieved in the world when blowing PCI, but without large capital costs.
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