Principles of Blast Furnace Ironmaking Introduction

The blast furnace is an important metallurgical equipment used for iron-making. The principle of blast Furnace ironmaking converts iron ore into liquid iron and slag through the process of high-temperature reduction and melting, realizing the smelting process from ore to metal.

Ironworks production
Ironworks production

What are the methods of making iron?

Ironmaking methods mainly include the blast furnace method, direct reduction method, smelting reduction method, เป็นต้น. The principle is that the ore obtains reduced pig iron through physical and chemical reactions in a specific atmosphere (reducing substances CO, H2, ค; suitable temperature, เป็นต้น). Except for a small part of pig iron used in casting, most of it is used as raw material for steelmaking. Blast furnace ironmaking is the main method of modern ironmaking and an important link in steel production. This method was developed and improved from ancient shaft furnace ironmaking. The iron produced by blast furnaces accounts for more than 95% of the world’s total iron production. There are also many requirements for the วัสดุทนไฟ used in external blast furnaces. Please contact us for details.

blast furnace ironmaking
blast furnace iron-making

Introduction to blast furnace ironmaking process

The ironmaking process is to load iron-containing raw materials (sinter, pellets, or iron ore), fuel (โค้ก, coal powder, เป็นต้น), and other auxiliary raw materials (limestone, dolomite, manganese ore, เป็นต้น) from the top of the blast furnace in a certain proportion. into the blast furnace, and the hot blast furnace blows hot air into the blast furnace along the tuyere around the furnace to assist the coke combustion (some blast furnaces also inject auxiliary fuels such as pulverized coal, heavy oil, natural gas, เป็นต้น)

ที่อุณหภูมิสูง, the carbon in the Coke burns with oxygen blown into the air to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Raw materials and fuels decline as the smelting process in the furnace proceeds. When the descending charge and the rising gas meet, heat transfer, การลดน้อยลง, melting, and decarburization occur successively to generate pig iron.

Blast furnace ironmaking plant
Blast furnace ironmaking plant

The impurities in the iron ore raw materials are combined with the flux added into the furnace to form slag. The molten iron at the bottom of the furnace is intermittently released into a molten iron tank and sent to the steelmaking plant.

The impurities in the iron ore raw materials are combined with the flux added into the furnace to form slag. The molten iron at the bottom of the furnace is intermittently released into a molten iron tank and sent to the steelmaking plant.