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The blast furnace cannot operate without coke, but since it is the most expensive feed material used in the blast furnace iron-making process, there has always been a demand to minimize its use. In the furnace, coke supplies heat energy while physically maintaining the permeability of the blast furnace bed.
This blast furnace process is the oldest but still the main method to produce large quantities of molten raw iron, hot metal, and for steel making and foundry purposes. The early blast furnace had about a 6 m × 6 m square formed stone foundation and 6–8 m high walls of stone blocks. The upper half of the walls could be also made of timber.
The blast furnace process has auxiliary equipment associated with it. This auxiliary equipment and the gaseous pathways inside a blast furnace process are shown in Figure 2. The blast furnace process can be briefly described as follows. Iron oxides, flux agents, and metallurgical coke are added to a skip car at the stock house.
The oxygen blast furnace process flow chart is shown in Fig. 19 (Zhang, H.J. et al., 2015). The current problem of oxygen blast furnace is the uneven distribution of recycled gas, which affects the utilization of recycled gas. This is caused by the collision on between the recovered gas injected into the blast furnace and the gas from the furnace.
Selective crystallization of titanium-containing blast furnace slag at a temperature of 1400 °C produced a hybrid microstructure consisting of a CaTiO 3 crystalline phase and an amorphous part, and the CaTiO 3-containing mineral polymers could realize the dual functions of adsorption and photodegradation.
These products include air-cooled blast furnace slag (ACBFS), expanded or foamed slag, pelletized slag, and granulated blast furnace slag. 8.1.1.1 Air-Cooled Blast Furnace Slag. If the liquid slag is poured into beds and slowly cooled under ambient conditions, a crystalline structure is formed, and a hard, lump slag is produced, which can ...
Blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF): This is the dominant steel production route in the iron and steel industry, involving the reduction of iron ore to pig iron in the blast furnace. BF-BOF operation relies almost entirely on coal products, emitting ∼70% of CO 2 in the integrated plant (BF iron making). Hot iron is then charged to a ...
Blast furnace technology is a mature production system with literally a thousand-year history and fossil coke has unique desirable mechanical properties which makes it difficult to replace with less emitting alternatives. 22 Another commonly stated reason why steel is seen as difficult to decarbonize is the socio-economic inertia that stems ...
Blast furnace iron has limited engineering applications. It is mainly for use for iron castings, and for abrasion resistance and heat-transfer applications. Most blast furnace iron is the raw material for oxygen steelmaking, where the molten iron is refined to produce the world’s most popular metal for engineering applications—rolled steel.
The blast furnace (BF) is the most energy-consuming and important reactor in ironmaking industries at present (i.e., conventional BFs) and in the near term (i.e., novel BFs) [1]. In the BF process, iron ore and coke are loaded alternately at the furnace top, and hot blast is introduced into the lower part of the furnace along the circumference ...