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This document outlines the units of an Iron Making course with 4 credits. Unit I discusses the history and principles of iron making including raw materials. Unit II covers agglomeration processes like sintering and pelletization. Unit III examines the physical chemistry and reactions in blast furnaces. Unit IV looks at blast furnace design. Unit V covers non-routine operations, modern trends, and efficiency. Unit VI presents alternative iron making methods like sponge iron production. The document lists several textbooks for the course.

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MM1202

This document outlines the units of an Iron Making course with 4 credits. Unit I discusses the history and principles of iron making including raw materials. Unit II covers agglomeration processes like sintering and pelletization. Unit III examines the physical chemistry and reactions in blast furnaces. Unit IV looks at blast furnace design. Unit V covers non-routine operations, modern trends, and efficiency. Unit VI presents alternative iron making methods like sponge iron production. The document lists several textbooks for the course.

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Iron Making

(No. of Credits: 4)

Unit – I: History of Iron making; Principles of Iron Making – Reduction, Smelting, Direct Reduction,
Smelt Reduction; Raw materials for Iron making, their distribution, occurrence in India and in the
world. Coke Making: Rank of coal, Coking and non coking coals, Coal blends for coke making, coking
ovens, cooling of coke, coke size distribution, coke quality and strength of coke.
Unit – II: Preparation of iron ores: Agglomeration of Iron ore fines, Sintering: Principles, Factors
affecting sintering, sintering mechanism, sintering machines; Pelletisation: Theory of pelletisation,
Water-particles system. Production of green pellets; disk and drum pelletizers, Induration of pellets:
Shaft and traveling grate; Quality demands for the blast furnace burden.
Unit – III: Physical chemistry of Iron making; Blast furnace reactions; Physical and chemical factors
affecting reduction of ores; Thermodynamics of the C-O reaction; C-O, Fe-C-O and H-O, Fe-H-O
system; Factors affecting composition of slag and hot metal; Internal zones in blast furnace; Thermal
and chemical reserve zones; Types of Pig Irons & Blast furnace Slags.
Unit – IV: Blast furnace profile and design considerations; B.F. Stoves; Furnace lining: Types of
refractories, Physical and chemical characteristics of refractories. Refractories for blast furnace and
stoves; Furnace cooling system; Hoisting equipment; Blast furnace products and Utilization: Handling
hot metal and slag, Blast furnace slag utilization, BF gas cleaning system and its utilization.
Unit – V: Blast furnace non-routine operations and difficulties; Modern Trends in Blast furnace;
Burden calculation; Blast furnace productivity and efficiency; RAFT calculations; Limitations of Blast
furnace Iron production;
Unit – VI: Alternate Routes of Iron Making, Principles of Sponge Iron Making, Degree of
Metallization, Percentage Reduction, Classification of Sponge Iron making methods. Sponge Iron
Production: Midrex process, HYL, Kiln Krupp-Renn; SL/RN process; Smelt Reduction: COREX,
INRED, ELRED, Plasma Smelting; Sponge iron production in India.

TEXT BOOK;
1. Principles of Blast furnace Iron making – A.K Biswas
2. Beyond Blast furnace – Amit Chaterjee
3. Modern Iron Making – R H Tupkary
4. Iron making and steel making: Theory and Practice – Ahindra Ghosh, Amit Chatterjee
5. A Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Volume III - Seshadri Seetharaman
6. Hand book of Extractive Metallurgy: Vol. 1 - Fathi Habhashi
7. Hot metal Production by Smelting Reduction of Iron Oxides – Amit Chaterjee

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