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Model of Radial Distributions in the Upper Part of the Blast Furnace Shaft
Author(s) -
Kodukula Suresh K.,
Saxén Henrik
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
steel research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.603
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1869-344X
pISSN - 1611-3683
DOI - 10.1002/srin.200706296
Subject(s) - blast furnace , coke , concentric , mechanics , thermal , materials science , flow (mathematics) , metallurgy , thermodynamics , mathematics , physics , geometry
A mathematical model is developed to estimate the radial distribution of the ore‐to‐coke ratio in the blast furnace shaft on the basis of molar flow and energy balance equations. It utilizes the radial temperature distribution of the gas measured above the burden surface to estimate the thermal flow ratios in concentric rings of the shaft, and from this the ore‐to‐coke distribution under the assumptions that a thermal reserve zone of a given temperature exists in the furnace. The model, which also predicts the radial distribution of temperature and pressure in the shaft, has been evaluated on measurements from an industrial blast furnace and verified by comparing the results with temperatures from an in‐burden probe.