MinSiDeg - Minimisation of sinter degradation between sinter plant and blast furnace exploiting embedded real-time analytics

Initial situation:
- Fluctuation of sinter quality in time scales of minutes to several hours
- Detrimental influences of transport and storage procedures between sinter plant and blast furnace
Project targets:
- The Major objective of the project MinSiDeg from the economic and ecologic point of view is to decrease significantly costs and environmental impact at sinter plants and blast furnaces.
- From the technical point of view, major objective is to optimise the sinter quality along the production chain improving both, sinter plant and blast furnace operation.
Innovative approaches:
- Industrial real time monitoring of the physical aspects of sinter quality
- Development of new online methods for sinter quality determination
- Machine-supported decision support to optimize the sinter process in real time
Benefits for the industry:
- New knowledge on sinter breakage behaviour synthesized in innovative simulation methods
- New transport and storage technologies to decrease sinter degradation and segregation effects
- New online sinter quality measurement techniques
- Guidelines for a break-through in operational sinter quality monitoring
- Correlation of sinter quality with the blast furnace permeability
- Machine supported sinter quality control and maintenance by an embedded real-time assistance tool
Publications:
- E. Thienpont, T. Hauck, K. Walter, E. Schuster, R. Schwalbe, S. Wienströer, T. Kleinert, Application of Big Data approaches for model-based prediction of sinter quality indices,Conference proceedings, 6th ESTAD, Düsseldorf, Germany, 12th – 16th June 2023
- Thienpont, E.K., Hauck, T., Eroglu, T., Kleinert, T., Walter, K., New Measurement Techniques Describing the Sinter Process, Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2023, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 802. Springer, 2024, pp.239-247, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45651-0_24
- T. Hauck, K. Marx, T. Eroglu, E. Thienpont, S. Wienströer, R. Schwalbe, C. Hillmann, K. Walter, E. Schuster, C. Weichbold, M. Prenner, M. Denzel, M. Schatzl, C. Gruber, M. Thumfahrt, Minimise sinter degradation between sinter plant and blast furnace exploiting embedded real-time analytics (MinSiDeg), RFCS Grant No. 847285, Periodic Report 1&2, 2019-2023
- Denzel, Michael; Prenner, Michael, Minimierung des Sinterzerfalls mittels DEM, Berg Huettenmaenn Monatsheft,vol 166(2), pp.76-81, 2011
- Denzel, Michael Alexander, A Breakage Model for Discrete Element Simulations Applied to Iron Ore Sinter, PhD thesis, University of Leoben, 2023
- Denzel, Michael And Prenner, Michael And Sifferlinger, Nikolaus A., Development of an automated single particle impact tester for iron ore sinter, Minerals Engineering, vol 175, 2022
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Funding reference
Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS) 2018, Nr. 847285
Your contact person

31 Dipl.-Ing. Emanuel Thienpont
+49 211 98492-387
emanuel.thienpont_at_bfi.de