7TH EUROPEAN COKE AND IRONMAKING CONGRESS - ECIC 2016

Nowadays the sinter cooler often becomes the limiting factorof the sinter production. Outdated technologyleads tolow productivity and high operation and maintenance cost. This is countered by the two types of coolers developed and offered by Paul Wurth, the annular cooler and the shaft cooler. The classic design of the annular cooler was completely revised and is now essentially composed of a...

The presentation “Protecting Sintering Plants - Durability, sustainability and efficiency in wear protection” shows new approaches and developments for increasing the lifetime and efficiency of wear protection in the high temperature area of agglomeration plants (and related) to maintain cost-optimized production in agreement with environmental requirements. Scientific analyses of crucial...

Upgrading and de-bottlenecking by improving the existing becomes more and more important in these economically demanding times. PAUL WURTH is proposing a series of solutions that tackle the challenges of production and maintenance cost reduction, productivity increase, emission reduction. Optimized sintering starts with a precise control of the humidity of the raw mix, followed by automatic...

Blast furnaces do not operate properly with fine-grained iron ore. To make use of such ores, they must be processed efficiently into pellets in high scale traveling grate pelletizing plants. Pellets are small balls of iron ore. Such furnaces are lined with thousands of tons of refractories that play an important role in operation stability and energy efficiency. Partition walls are a critical...