Use of Hydrogen–Rich Gas in Blast Furnace Ironmaking of V–bearing Titanomagnetite: Mass and Energy Balance Calculations |
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| Authors: | Xudong Gao Run Zhang Zhixiong You Wenzhou Yu Jie Dang Chenguang Bai |
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| Affiliation: | 1.College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China;2.Key Laboratory of Vanadium–Titanium Metallurgy and New Materials, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China;3.College of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing 401331, China |
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| Abstract: | The iron and steel industry is a major CO2 emitter and an important subject for the implementation of carbon emission reduction goals and tasks. Due to the complex ore composition and low iron grade, vanadium–bearing titanomagnetite smelting in a blast furnace consumes more coke and emits more carbon than in an ordinary blast furnace. Injecting hydrogen–rich gas into blast furnace can not only partially replace coke, but also reduce the carbon emission. Based on the whole furnace and zonal energy and mass balance of blast furnace, the operation window of the blast furnace smelting vanadium–bearing titanomagnetite is established in this study on the premise that the thermal state of the blast furnace is basically unchanged (raceway adiabatic flame temperature and top gas temperature). The effects of different injection amounts of hydrogen–rich gases (shale gas, coke oven gas, and hydrogen) on raceway adiabatic flame temperature and top gas temperature, and the influence of blast temperature and preheating temperature of hydrogen–rich gases on operation window are calculated and analyzed. This study provides a certain theoretical reference for the follow–up practice of hydrogen–rich smelting of vanadium–bearing titanomagnetite in blast furnace. |
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| Keywords: | hydrogen– rich gas, v– bearing titanomagnetite, blast furnace ironmaking, mass and energy balance, operation window |
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