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Sessions (19)

Effect of Raw Material Preparation and Goethitic Material in Pelletizing (Room 402)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Liming Lu
Different raw material preparation techniques have developed to pelletise coarse concentrates. After examining the quality of both green and fired ... More...

Lime-Magnetite Pellets (LMPs) for Ironmaking (Room 402)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Akbar Rhamdhani ; Geoffrey Brooks ; Mark Pownceby ; N. Ware ; Suneeti Purohit
In this paper, the prospects of using lime-magnetite pellets (LMPs) as an alternative, reactive feed material in ironmaking is examined. The reacti... More...

Effect of MgO Addition on Iron Ore Pellet Quality (Room 402)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Jong Min Oh
MgO-added fluxed pellet was investigated to optimize MgO content in the ironmaking process in order to satisfy both the viscosity of BF slag and st... More...

Importance of Ore Characteristics in Iron Ore Pelletizing (Room 402)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Liming Lu
Pelletizing is one of the most common agglomeration technologies for preparing iron ore concentrates for conventional and other alternative ironmak... More...

CFD Simulation of Dry Density Separation of Iron Ore Fines (Room 402)

06 May 19
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Achintya Das ; Anand Senguttuvan ; Ganesh Chalavadi ; Ranjeet Singh
Dry ore beneficiation is an alternative approach to wet processing aimed at minimizing the energy expense. Ore fines fed onto a separator plate and... More...

Effect of Different Iron Ore Pellet Qualities on the HYL Direct Reduction Process (Room 402)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Adrian Cruz Espinoza ; Andrea Licerio Gonzalez ; Jesus Navarro Castruita ; Mario Llamas Bueno
The effect of different iron ore pellet quality in the HYL direct reduction process was evaluated with focus on productivity, quality and fines gen... More...

Design of a Pilot Plant Using the Flash Ironmaking Process: The Path to Commercially Developing a New Form of Ironmaking Using Hydrogen (Room 402)

06 May 19
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Christopher Ravenscroft ; Edward Green
The development of an emerging ironmaking technology is rapidly progressing. A 3-tpy pilot plant for the flash ironmaking process has been designed... More...

A Way to Produce Higher Steel Grades by Retrofitting Existing Syngas Production Plants (Room 402)

06 May 19
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Alessandro Martinis ; Ashton Hertrich Giraldo ; Dario Pauluzzi
Traditionally, worldwide DRI production has been limited by the requirement to secure several pre-conditions at the same time and at the same place... More...

Innovative Treatment Strategies Improve DRI Plant Efficiency and Availability (Room 402)

06 May 19
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Bojan Gavran ; David Oswald ; James Hatcher
In 2016, voestalpine Texas LLC was commissioned by Midrex Technologies Inc. and Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH as the world’s largest and most... More...

Engineered Catalysts for Optimal Reformer Performance (Room 402)

06 May 19
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Mark Stuckey
DRI reformer catalysts are based on technology that is an afterthought from syngas reforming. Magma has reviewed the catalyst failure modes to rede... More...

Evolution of the TENOVA HYL Plant Design (Room 402)

06 May 19
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Joel Morales ; Pablo Duarte
With a firm focus on continuous innovation of the Tenova HYL direct reduction process, this presentation outlines Tenova HYL's latest developments ... More...

Getting the Most From Raw Materials: Iron Unit Yield From Ore to Liquid Steel via the Direct Reduction/EAF Route (Room 402)

07 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Christopher Manning, PhD.
Iron units represent the largest operating expense in both direct reduction and steelmaking plants. Even a slight change in iron yield can have a g... More...

Assessment of The Impact of Rising Levels of Residuals in Scrap (Room 402)

07 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Steel is the most widely used raw material in the World due to its high tensile strength and low cost. Globally we recycle 630 million tpy of ste... More...

Carbon and Oxygen Usage in the EAF — Is More Always Better? (Room 402)

07 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): J. Kevin Cotchen ; Zane Voss
Many steelmakers add carbon to the EAF, but most often do not critically evaluate their current practices. Carbon is viewed as a way to introduce ... More...

Effect of Carbon Bonding State and Concentration on Melting of Direct Reduced Iron (Room 402)

07 May 19
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Geonu Kim ; P. Chris Pistorius ; Yilmaz Kacar
The effect of carbon bonding and carbon concentration on direct reduced iron (DRI) melting behavior is investigated. DRI carbon content and its for... More...

RECYRON: Idea to Innovation to Technology in Zero-Waste Ironmaking (Room 402)

07 May 19
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Anrin Bhattacharyya ; Kinnor Chattopadhyay
RECYRON® is a groundbreaking, novel and patent-pending technology for complete utilization of the raw material wastes (RMWs) from integrated steel ... More...

Quality Prediction and Control in Coal-Fired Rotary Kilns at Tata Sponge Iron Ltd. (Room 402)

07 May 19
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Brahma Deo ; Gyanranjan Pothal ; Parimal Malakar ; Partha Chattopadhyay ; Puneet Chaudhary ; Sampurna Borah ; Shubhajit Mondal ; Susil Kumar Sahoo
The conventional models for iron ore reduction assume mass transfer control above approximately 1,000°C. In a rotary kiln, however, the reduction ... More...

Operation of Coal-Based Sponge Iron Rotary Kiln to Reduce Accretion Formation and Optimize Quality and Power Generation (Room 402)

07 May 19
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Brahma Deo ; Gyanranjan Pothal ; Parimal Malakar ; Partha Chattopadhyay ; Puneet Chaudhary ; Sampurna Borah ; Shubhajit Mondal ; Susil Kumar Sahoo
The optimal decision control system (ODCS), developed for the first time at TATA Sponge Iron Ltd. – Joda, uses gas and liquid petroleum to minimize... More...

Failure Analysis of Feed Gas Tubes Used in Direct Reduction Plants (Room 402)

07 May 19
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Carlos Ansió
Feed gas tubes are one of the main parts in the natural gas reformer of a DRI plant. The failure of one of the feed gas tubes was the starting poin... More...