06 May 19
9:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Michael Alter ; Robert Nightingale ; Yakov Gordon
A modern view on carbon transfer into blast furnace hot metal and empirical equations for saturated carbon content are presented. Carbon saturation...
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06 May 19
9:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Arthur Cheng ; Ian Cameron ; Stuart Street
Titania-bearing minerals used in blast furnace ironmaking satisfy two needs: as a ferrous burden component and for hearth campaign extension. Littl...
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06 May 19
10:00 AM
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10:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Ian Cameron ; John Busser ; John G. Grindey ; Michael Bodley ; Mitren Sukhram ; Ralph Albanese ; Ravi Pula ; Yasser Ghobara
Leaking tuyeres damage hearth refractories, chill the hearth and cause production losses. U. S. Steel and Hatch implemented a soft sensor at blast ...
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06 May 19
10:00 AM
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10:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Biao Ouyang ; Xuewen Xiao ; Zhongping Zou
This paper analyzes the critical and restraining factors on the blast furnace’s hearth service life. It presents the viewpoints that the solidified...
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06 May 19
10:30 AM
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11:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Chuan Wang ; Guangwei Wang ; Gunnar Westin ; Jianliang Zhang ; Jonna Almqvist ; Kaidi Wang ; Nan Zhang
An experimental study was performed to investigate the suitability of hydrochar for blast furnace (BF) injection. Three hydrochar samples originate...
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06 May 19
10:30 AM
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11:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Brian Rogers ; Du Lee ; Ian Cameron ; Jason Entwistle ; John Busser ; John G. Grindey ; Kyle Chomyn ; Maher Al-Dojayli ; Michael Bodley ; Michael McCoy ; Mitren Sukhram ; Paul Towsey ; Ralph Albanese ; Rishi Midha ; Todd Schrenk ; Yasser Ghobara
In 2016, 10 years after the hearth was installed, blast furnace No. 14 experienced rapid hearth wall temperature increases under the three tapholes...
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06 May 19
11:00 AM
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11:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Afshin Sadri ; L.R. Singh ; Mallikarjun L ; Mitchel Henstock ; Rajesh Anand ; Srinivas Rao ; Sunil Kumar ; Winnie Ying ; Yakov Gordon
Reliable and stable operation with longer blast furnace campaign allows an increase in utilization of blast furnace for production of hot metal. Pr...
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06 May 19
11:00 AM
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11:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Jun Ishii ; Kazuhira Ichikawa ; Kiyoshi Fukada ; Taihei Nouchi ; Toshiyuki Hirosawa ; Yusuke Kashihara
A new apparatus called a cohesive zone simulator was developed. Coke slit layer thickness in a cohesive zone in a blast furnace is one of the impor...
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06 May 19
2:00 PM
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2:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Alekander Pavlov ; Andrey Polinov ; Nikolai Spirin ; Oleg Onorin ; Yakov Gordon
Uneven distribution of hot blast among the tuyeres leads to variation in raceway length, causing a difference in material descent and gas flow in v...
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06 May 19
2:00 PM
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2:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Chenn Zhou ; John D'Alessio ; Mitchell Klaas ; Samuel Nielson ; Stuart Street ; Tyamo Okosun
With the recent interest in high-rate natural gas (NG) injection in North America, it is necessary to further explore the impacts of such operation...
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06 May 19
3:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Christian Jordan ; Christoph Feilmayr ; Franz Hauzenberger ; Inês Isabel Antunes Paiva ; Johannes Rieger ; Markus Bösenhofer ; Michael Harasek ; Stefan Tjaden
Pulverized coal injection (PCI) into blast furnaces is state of the art for energy-efficient operation. In general, pressurized feeding vessels are...
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06 May 19
3:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Ângelo Storti ; Christiano Gomes ; Claudio Musso ; Daniel Machado ; Gabreil Cândido ; Marcilio Gonçalves ; Mário Monteiro ; Paulo Almeida
As the demand for steel has increased and as scrap prices have increased, it became feasible to reactivate VSB's blast furnace No. 2 in April 2018....
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06 May 19
3:30 PM
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4:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Larisa Yu. Gileva ; Sergei Filatov ; Sergei Myasoedov ; Sergei Zaiganov ; Vladimir Titov ; Yakov Gordon
Theoretical analysis shows that high intensity of blast furnace operation and minimum coke consumption could be simultaneously achieved. With the i...
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06 May 19
4:00 PM
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4:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Ka Wing Ng ; Louis Giroux ; Ted Todoschuk ; Xianai Huang
Using the injection simulation rig in CanmetENERGY, experimental works were conducted to examine the combustion behavior and carbonaceous material ...
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06 May 19
4:30 PM
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5:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Ka Wing Ng ; Louis Giroux ; Ted Todoschuk ; Xianai Huang
Substitution of pulverized coal by biocarbon in direct injection of auxiliary fuel has the potential to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissio...
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07 May 19
10:00 AM
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10:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Jason Entwistle ; Jean-Francois Stumper ; Mark Anthony ; Ralph Albanese
In 2017-2018, U. S. Steel Gary Works installed the SOMA system at its No. 14 blast furnace. The SOMA system provides a complete 2D top-gas tempera...
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07 May 19
10:00 AM
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10:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Cameron Soltys ; Hamid Ghorbani ; Ian Cameron ; Kyle Chomyn ; Maher Al-Dojayli ; Mitren Sukhram
Blast furnace hearth refractory systems are exposed to high temperatures and harsh conditions during operation, causing refractory degradation that...
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07 May 19
10:30 AM
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11:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Anthony Gadzala ; James Bobek ; Jon Marsh ; Joseph Brunner ; Keith Martin ; Mark Anthony ; Romain Clesen ; Ryan Gawron
Between 2015-2017, ArcelorMittal upgraded its casthouse tapping equipment at the No. 7 Blast Furnace.
The decision was made to upgrade the equipme...
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07 May 19
10:30 AM
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11:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Edward Burns ; Giuliano Copetti ; Luca Folco ; Tina Štokelj
Blast furnace taphole clays, once mistakenly considered mere consumable materials, are now recognized as an integral component of the production pr...
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07 May 19
11:00 AM
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11:30 AM
Speaker(s):
G. Matveienko ; Nikolai Izumskiy ; Yakov Gordon
The hierarchy of mathematical models and subsystems to control blast furnace operation are described and results of their application for blast fur...
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07 May 19
11:00 AM
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11:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Robert Horwood ; Robert Mawer
Since the “Davy Cone” was developed in the 1980s, Primetals Technologies has had a 40-year period of development and application of its gas cleanin...
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07 May 19
11:30 AM
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12:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Kristina Beskow ; Per Vesterberg
GRANSHOT metal granulation allows planned or unplanned excess pig iron from blast furnaces to be solidified within 30 seconds. The granulated pig i...
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07 May 19
11:30 AM
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12:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Krishnan Premanand ; Malte Braam ; Wolfgang Linden
For economical operation of steel works, it is important to efficiently plan routes of the torpedo cars. Today's stationary detection methods have ...
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07 May 19
2:00 PM
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2:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Charles Walpole ; Christopher Caplick ; Frank Huang ; Marcelo Andrade
In ArcelorMittal, Above-Burden Infrared Camera (ABirC) has been visualizing, in real time, the distributions and events of burden and top gas in bl...
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07 May 19
2:00 PM
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2:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Adriano Corrêa Batista ; Edna Mônica da Silva ; Gabrielle Christina de Carvalho Campolina ; Hellen Cristine Prata de Oliveira ; Marina Furbino Martins ; Paulo Santos Assis ; Priscila de Souza André ; Ricardo Abrahão Júnior
Sintering is a thermodynamic process out of equilibrium and thermally activated, in which the system of particles gains a coherent solid structure....
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07 May 19
2:30 PM
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3:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Arvind Kumar Jaiswal ; Manjini Sambandam ; Marutiram Kaza ; Prabhat Kumar Ghorui ; Rameshwar Sah ; Satendra Kumar
The study presents an innovative approach for iron ore microfines (-150 microns) utilization in sintermaking as micropellets (2-6 mm). Sinter mix c...
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07 May 19
2:30 PM
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3:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Bruno Schwarzbauer ; Daniel Ulrich ; Dieter Bettinger ; Harald Fritschek ; Helmut Lindbichler ; Manfred Lehner ; Norbert Laister ; Roman Lamplmayr ; Wolfgang Braunschmid
Complex ironmaking processes require reliable automation with high performance and maintainability. Clearly structured systems, advanced programmin...
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07 May 19
3:30 PM
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4:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Christophe Solver ; Claude Meisch ; Fabrice Hansen ; Jean-Paul Simoes ; Stephan Weyer ; Yves Reuter
This paper describes the approach to and the status of implementation of digital solutions at an ironmaking plant in Germany. These include L2 auto...
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07 May 19
4:00 PM
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4:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Dieter Bettinger ; Harald Fritschek ; Martin Schaler ; Richard Wollhofen ; Thomas Kronberger
The objective of holistic ironmaking technologies is to achieve the global optimum for all ironmaking processes rather than the individual optima f...
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07 May 19
4:00 PM
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4:30 PM
Speaker(s):
D.K. Khandekar
Nature is blessed with large recourses of iron ore in India with a mix of high and low grade ore
quality. India ranks 5th in the world in iron ore...
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07 May 19
4:30 PM
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5:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Gang Wang ; Hao Xie ; Jinsong Wang ; Xiao-dong Sun
This paper applies big data technology to analyzing the relationship between raw materials, operation and conditions in the blast furnace. It emplo...
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08 May 19
8:00 AM
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8:30 AM
Speaker(s):
D. Rudge ; Darren Kazmaier ; Dustin Vickress ; Ian Cameron ; Janice Bolen
Protecting copper stave coolers against wear is critical for extending blast furnace campaigns and reducing downtime. Traditional refractory materi...
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08 May 19
8:00 AM
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8:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Ramana Reddy ; Xuewei Lv ; Zhiming Yan
A structure-based viscosity model has been developed for the CaO-MgO-MnO-SiO2-Al2O3 system and its subsystems. The experimental data for the MnO-be...
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08 May 19
8:30 AM
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9:00 AM
Speaker(s):
David Osborne ; Richard Harvey ; Robert Horwood ; Robert Mawer
Copper staves have now been used in blast furnaces for 40 years, and Primetals Technologies has had great success with this technology — in terms o...
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08 May 19
9:00 AM
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9:30 AM
Speaker(s):
David Hughes ; Luke Sutherland
Three options for tuyere nose cores are commonly available when casting: sand, copper and glass. This paper investigates the effects of core type o...
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08 May 19
9:00 AM
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9:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Anton Subbotin ; Boris Prokofyev ; Lubor Kucera ; Marina Kalugin ; Maxim Aksyushin ; Sergey Ivlev ; Yury Murzin
Continuously growing competition in ironmaking, as well as toughening of requirements to environmental safety standards, requires application of in...
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08 May 19
9:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Baodong LV ; Deshun Hu ; Fan Zhang ; Guangwei Wang ; Hongyu Zhang ; Jianhua Dai ; Tai Gao ; Tianjun Yang ; Xiliang Liu ; Zhengkai Gao
A newly designed on-line laser detector system was applied on the Chaoyang No. 1 blast furnace (2600 m3) at AnSteel. Using two laser scanners and o...
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08 May 19
9:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Afshin Sadri ; Winnie Ying
Acoustic Emission (AE) is an advanced non-destructive testing (NDT) and evaluation (NDE) technique that has been utilized to detect formation of cr...
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