7TH EUROPEAN COKE AND IRONMAKING CONGRESS - ECIC 2016

Today the iron making business in general and with it metallurgical plant design and engineering faces a highly competitive environment. The pelletizing sector, whether for new plants or for revamping and optimization of existing plants, is challenged by economic pressure by competitors, deteriorating raw material quality, more stringent environmental regulations and remote plant locations often with limited electrical power, fuel and auxiliary media supply. Maintaining competitiveness demands more accurate equipment specification and engineering as well as optimized technical solutions concerning raw materials, fuel and auxiliary media. Nowadays simulations based on mathematical models for the physical and chemical phenomena occurring in the pelletizing process allow accurate calculation and prediction of the most important process parameters. Although many literature data is available, experimental validation and data acquisition for parameter adjustment as well as product quality and guarantee-figure evaluation by pot gate tests is indispensable. This paper gives an insight into Primetals simulation tool, the pot grate test facility for experimental test work and the combination and concurrence thereof.