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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