Open AccessNumerical simulation and experimental study on hematite production by oxidation of mill scale
Author(s) -
M T Aldiramadan,
J Nabilah,
M. Fauzi Ridwan,
Deni Shidqi Khaerudini
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1195/1/012044
Subject(s) - hematite , mill scale , roasting , dimensionless quantity , metallurgy , materials science , degree (music) , mill , oxide , thermal , engineering , mechanical engineering , thermodynamics , physics , acoustics
Mill scale is a waste product from steel hot rolling processes and containing a high amount of FeO and Fe 3 O 4 . It is crucial to recycle and reuse this waste for the recovery into a metallic iron or its single oxide derivative. One of the end products of mill scale oxidation is hematite which has multitude of uses in various application. In this present study, mill scale is converted to hematite by roasting a mixture of mill scale at a specific set of conditions at 900°C for a varied time under ambient air environment by addition of pelletized limestone as a heat storage media. In this work, the Dimensionless Degree of Oxidation Prediction Model (DDOPM) has been constructed to gain hematite purity approach in the resulting powder by using Matlab. The Buckingham Pi Theorem is used to find dimensionless parameters considering the effect of different parameters including the geometric factor of tubular horizontal furnace used, characteristic of mill scale, ambient air factor, and thermal characteristics of limestone. The degree of oxidation from experimental result was obtained from XRF analysis and compared to the result of DDOPM to show the correlation between the experimental and numerical.