The Iron Blast Furnace: Theory and Practice presents theoretical, experimental, and operational evidence about the iron blast furnace as well as a mathematical description of its operation. This book includes a set of equations that accurately describe stoichiometric and enthalpy balances for the process and which are consistent with observed temperatures and compositions in the furnace stack. These equations, which have been devised on the basis of the Rist approach, show the effects of altering any blast-furnace variable on the other operating requirements of the process.
This monograph is comprised of 14 chapters and begins with a brief description of the blast-furnace process. The next chapter takes a look inside the furnace, paying particular attention to its behavior in front of the tuyères and the kinetics of the coke gasification reaction. The reader is then introduced to the thermodynamics and stoichiometry of the blast-furnace process; enthalpy balance for the bottom segment of the furnace; the effects of tuyères injectants on blast-furnace operations; and blast-furnace optimization by linear programming. A number of important variables covered by the equations are discussed, including hydrocarbon injection at the tuyères, oxygen enrichment of the blast, moisture, limestone decomposition, coke reactivity, and metalloid reduction. The effects of many of these variables are illustrated numerically in the text while others are demonstrated in sets of problems that follow each chapter.
This text will be a valuable resource for metallurgists and materials scientists.
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Professor William George Davenport is a graduate of the University of British Columbia and the Royal School of Mines, London. Prior to his academic career he worked with the Linde Division of Union Carbide in Tonawanda, New York. He spent a combined 43 years of teaching at McGill University and the University of Arizona. His Union Carbide days are recounted in the book Iron Blast Furnace, Analysis, Control and Optimization (English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Spanish editions). During the early years of his academic career he spent his summers working in many of Noranda Mines Company's metallurgical plants, which led quickly to the book Extractive Metallurgy of Copper. This book has gone into five English language editions (with several printings) and Chinese, Farsi and Spanish language editions. He also had the good fortune to work in Phelps Dodge's Playas flash smelter soon after coming to the University of Arizona. This experience contributed to the book Flash Smelting, with two English language editions and a Russian language edition and eventually to the book Sulfuric Acid Manufacture (2006), 2nd edition 2013. In 2013 co-authored Extractive Metallurgy of Nickel, Cobalt and Platinum Group Metals, which took him to all the continents except Antarctica. He and four co-authors are just finishing up the book Rare Earths: Science, Technology, Production and Use, which has taken him around the United States, Canada and France, visiting rare earth mines, smelters, manufacturing plants, laboratories and recycling facilities. Professor Davenport's teaching has centered on ferrous and non-ferrous extractive metallurgy. He has visited (and continues to visit) about 10 metallurgical plants per year around the world to determine the relationships between theory and industrial practice. He has also taught plant design and economics throughout his career and has found this aspect of his work particularly rewarding. The delight of his life at the university has, however, always been academic advising of students on a one-on-one basis. Professor Davenport is a Fellow (and life member) of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and a twenty-five year member of the (U.S.) Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration. He is recipient of the CIM Alcan Award, the TMS Extractive Metallurgy Lecture Award, the AusIMM Sir George Fisher Award, the AIME Mineral Industry Education Award, the American Mining Hall of Fame Medal of Merit and the SME Milton E. Wadsworth award. In September 2014 he will be honored by the Conference of Metallurgists' Bill Davenport Honorary Symposium in Vancouver, British Columbia (his home town).
Inhalt
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. A Brief Description of the Blast-Furnace Process
1.1 Raw Materials
1.2 Products
1.3 Operation
1.4 Improvements in Productivity
1.5 Blast-Furnace Costs
1.6 Summary
Problems
2. A Look Inside the Furnace
2.1 Behavior in Front of the Tuyères
2.2 Reactions in the Hearth, Tuyère Raceways and Bosh
2.3 The Fusion Zone
2.4 Reduction above the Fusion Zone
2.5 Kinetics of the Coke Gasification Reaction
2.6 Reactions in Regions above the 1200 K Isotherm
2.7 Reduction of Higher Oxides
2.8 The Top Quarter of the Shaft and the Exit Gas
2.9 Residence Times
2.10 Burden Arrangements
2.11 Summary
Problems
3. Thermodynamics of the Blast-Furnace Process: Enthalpies and Equilibria
3.1 Enthalpy Requirements in the Blast Furnace
3.2 Critical Hearth Temperature
3.3 Temperature Profiles in the Furnace: The Thermal Reserve Zone
3.4 Free Energy Considerations in the Blast Furnace: The Approach to Equilibrium
3.5 Gas Composition Profiles in the Furnace: The Chemical Reserve Zone
3.6 Summary
Problems
4. Blast-Furnace Stoichiometry
4.1 The Stoichiometric Development
4.2 The Stoichiometric Equation
4.3 Calculations
4.4 Graphical Representation of the Stoichiometric Balance
4.5 Summary
Problems
5. Development of a Model Framework: Simplified Blast-Furnace Enthalpy Balance
5.1 Simplifications for an Initial Enthalpy Balance
5.2 The Enthalpy Balance
5.3 Heat Supply and Heat Demand
5.4 A General Enthalpy Framework
5.5 Summary
Problems
6. The Model Framework: Combination of Stoichiometric and Enthalpy Equations
6.1 Combining Stoichiometric and Enthalpy Equations: Calculations
6.2 Graphical Representation of the Combined Stoichiometric-Enthalpy Equation
6.3 A Graphical Calculation
6.4 Summary and Discussion of Stoichiometry/Enthalpy Graph
Problems
7. Completion of the Stoichiometric Part of the Model: Conceptual Division of the Blast Furnace through the Chemical Reserve Zone
7.1 The Blast Furnace as Two Separate Reactors
7.2 Stoichiometric Balances for the Bottom Segment
7.3 Stoichiometric Equation for the Wustite Reduction Zone
7.4 Discussion and Summary
Problems
8. Enthalpy Balance for the Bottom Segment of the Furnace
8.1 Enthalpy Balance for the Bottom Segment
8.2 The Demand-Supply Form of the Enthalpy Equation
8.3 Numerical Development
8.4 Summary
Problems
9. Combining Bottom Segment Stoichiometry and Enthalpy Equations: A Priori Calculation of Operating Parameters
9.1 Example Calculations
9.2 Implications of the Equations
9.3 Graphical Representation of the Equations
9.4 A Graphical Calculation
9.5 Characteristics of the Operating Line
9.6 Summary
Problems
10. Testing of the Mathematical Model and a Discussion of its Premises
10.1 Testing for Thermal Validity
10.2 Top-Gas Temperature Calculation
10.3 Testing for Stoichiometric Validity
10.4 Testing for Thermodynamic Validity
10.5 Validity of the Model Assumptions and Predictions
10.6 Non-Attainment of Equilibrium in the Chemical Reserve Zone
10.7 Thermal Res…