Sinter Plant
Sinter Plant
Sinter Plant
Sinter Plant - I
The Sinter Plant-I has a rated capacity of 1.5 million tonnes of
sinter per year based on 2-strand 3 shift running. There are two
sinter machines of the Dwight-lloyd down draft type with 125 sq
meter working area. The raw materials as specified above are
brought, stored, crushed and sent to proportionating bins. The
different materials are drawn from these bins in a fixed ratio on to a
common belt conveyor leading to the primary mixing drum. Here
water and return fines are added. The raw mix is stored in two
intermediate bins from where it is fed into the two pelletising
drums. Here further water is added to facilitate balling which
increases the permeability of the raw mix.
This is carried to the charging hopper over the sinter machine 1 &
2. The material is fed over the sinter machine pallets and the height
of the bed is maintained 400-450 mm depending upon quality of raw
material used and sinter to be made. The sinter machine is provided
with 21 wind boxes at the bottom to suck the air through the bed. As
the bed travels through the Ignition Furnace, the top layer is ignited.
This combustion zone proceeds downwards till the pallets reaches
the discharge end.
The temperature in the last wind box is maintained at around
250o C. The hot sinter coming out from the machine is broken by the
sinter breaker and then screened. The -6mm fraction is sent to the
Return fines bin. The sinter is then cooled in the cooling strand by
blowing air through it and finally it is sent to the double deck cold
screen. Here it is separated into 3 fractions.
Input material:
The input materials and average consumption for one ton of sinter are:
1. Iron ore fines - 830 Kg
2. Lime stone fines - 80 Kg
3. Dolomite fines - 160 Kg
4. Coke Breeze - 69Kg (Dry)
5. Return fines - 30% (max.)
Output:
The output is sinter whose typical composition is:
1.Total Fe 54.0 %
2.FeO 9.50.5 %
3.SiO2 5.50.5 %
4.Al2O3 3.00.2 %
5.CaO 10.5 0.5 %
6.MgO 2.8 0.2 %
7.Basicity 1.8 - 2.0 %
SINTER PLANT-II
Process:
Sintering is the process of agglomeration of particle fines
by incipient fusion, which bind them together into hard,
porous, lumpy mass of material. Base mix, coke breeze
and flux fines are received at Sinter Plant I by a series of
belt conveyors from OBBP and collected in bins. There are
total twelve bins, four are for base mix, one for
miscellaneous, two each for flux fines, coke breeze and
Blast furnace return fines one for plant return fines. After
proportionating, the material comes to mixing and balling
drum for nodulising and moistening.
Lime Plant:
Lime Plant has a twin shaft kiln and a single shaft kiln to
produce metallurgical lime for use in LD converters of SMS-I as
flux. Twin shaft parallel flow regenerating kiln namely Kiln No.5 is
of 150 T capacity per day and single shaft kiln namely Kiln No.8 is
of 80 T capacity per day. Lime stone is supplied by Ore Bedding
and Blending Plant. Feed size of Lime stone is 40mm to 80 mm
and CaO content is 53% min. Lime stone is stored in the High Line
bunkers of LDBP and charged in the Kiln by skip. Lime produced is
stored in Kiln Bunkers and Classified Bunkers and supplied to SMS
through Belt Conveyors.