Ironmaking in the Blast Furnace Plant

Bell Less Top

Sinter

Coke
Hot Blast Stoves Gas Cleaning Gasholder

Stock House

Scrubber Combustion Air Blower Combustion Gas Slag, Hot Metal Enrichment Gas

Blast Furnace

Top Gas Mains

Top Bins

Throat Armour

Above Burden Probe Temperature Probe

Refractory Lining

Sub Burden Probe

Bustle Main Tuyeres Hearth Refractories

Hot Blast Stove

Chequers

Combustion Chamber

Installation of Chequers

Cast House

Iron Production

COKE OVEN PLANT

SINTER PLANT

BLAST FURNACE

Coking Coal and iron ore are the basic raw materials for the production of pig iron, which will further be refined to steel in the steel works. In the coke oven plant coal is processed to coke. Coke is essential in the lower part of the blast furnace to maintain the gas permeability. Due to the high weight load of the burden column simple coal would break into small particles and block the gas stream. As a byproduct of the coking process coke oven gas mainly consisting of hydrogen and methane is generated, which is used mainly for generation of electric power in a thermal power plant. Most of the iron ores and additves are traded as fines and need some pretreatment before being processed in the blast furnace. This preprocess is called sintering, where, by means of heat (approx. 1300C) the fines are somehow baked to particles of between 20 and 50 mm mean diameter. These particles, called sinter, are also permeable for the reduction gases. In the blast furnace the reduction of the iron ores (Fe2O3) to metallic iron and the melting of the iron and by products take place. Both, reduction and melting need high temperature, which is generated by combustion of coke using hot blast, blown in via tuyeres located around the furnace. The reduction gas leaving the furnace is called top gas and after a cleaning process used to preheat the air in the hot blast stoves. Hot metal and slag are further tapped from the hearth of the blast furnace, by drilling a so called tap hole, which will be closed after aproximately one to one and a half hours again. The separation of hot metal and slag takes place in a so called pool runner outside the furnace, using the density difference.

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English additives bell less top bins blast furnance blower burden burden column bustle main cast house chequers coal cocking coal coke coke oven gas combustion air combustion chamber combustion gas enrichment gas fines furnance gas cleaning gas main German Zuschlge Glockenloser Gichtverschluss Behlter, Bunker Hochofen Kompressor Mller (Koks,Erz,Zuschlge) Mllersule Heiwind Ringleitung Giehalle Wrmespeichersteine Kohle Koks Kohle Koks Kokereigas Brennluft Brennraum Brenngas Gasanreicherung Feinkrniges Material Ofen Gasreinigung Gashauptleitung English gasholder hearth refractories hot blast hot blast stove hot metal ore permeable pig iron plant pool runner probe refractory lining scrubber sinter slag stock house temperature probe throat armor tap top gas tuyeres German Gasometer Herdmauerwerk Heiluft, Heiwind Winderhitzer Roheisen Erz durchlssig Roheisen Anlage Offene Rinne Sonden Feuerfestes Mauerwerk Wscher Sinter Schlacke Mller Gebude Temperatur sensor Schlagpanzer abstechen Gichtgas Dsen (Windformen)