Opportunities to improve the utilisation of granulated coals for blast furnace injection

FUEL

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Article; Proceedings Paper

Steer, Julian M.¹  Marsh, Richard¹  Greenslade, Mark²  Robinson, Andrew³ 

[1] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff Sch Engn, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales

[2] Tata Steel UK, Port Talbot, England

[3] Specific, Baglan Bay Innovat & Knowledge Ctr, Baglan SA12 7AX, Port Talbot, England

关键词: Blast furnace;    Granulated coal injection;    Combustion;    Devolatilisation;    Blends;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.fuel.2014.12.060

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Coal injection plays an important role to the economic success of ironmaking by substituting a portion of the coke input and improving the blast furnace productivity. Manufacturers are looking at opportunities to increase their coal selection options by using higher proportions of technically challenging lower volatile matter content coals; this paper investigates the kinetics, devolatilisation and burnout of these in granulated coal blends using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and a drop tube furnace (DTF). The char residue from the semi-anthracitic low volatile coal selected for this blending investigation had a much reduced reactivity at higher conversions which affected the blends in different ways. Burnout of the blends with the low volatile bituminous coals was improved by fragmentation of the granulated particles, but at longer residence times the lower reactivity of the more structurally ordered carbon in the semi anthracitic coal dominated. In contrast, the higher volatile coals showed improvements at low residence times corresponding to rapid volatile loss, but also showed non-additive blend improvement at longer residence times which may be explained by the more obvious presence of included minerals and the higher K/Al ratios associated with illite mineral phases known to improve burnout. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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