Cold bonded briquettes with high temperature properties for blast furnace burdens
- Ferrous Environmental Recycling Corp., Dearborn, MI (United States)
- Rouge Steel Co., Dearborn, MI (United States)
A combination briquetting process and proprietary binder system, that combines numerous revert materials into a productive blast furnace feed material, has been developed by Ferrous Environmental Recycling Corporation (FERCO). It has been proven that, when used at 5% of the blast furnace burden, these briquettes yield a coke savings of 40 lbs./NTHM and a production rate increase of approximately 4%. Residual elements in the briquettes are controlled through chemical analysis and careful blending, so that there are no adverse effects in steelmaking. The process combines several revert materials, including coke breeze and blast furnace flue dust, with a proprietary binder to produce a briquette with excellent high temperature properties. The briquette is designed to consume waste stream reverts with the significant added benefits of lower blast furnace fuel rates and increased hot metal production. Since 1988, nearly 750,000 tons of these briquettes have been produced and consumed.
- OSTI ID:
- 577471
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9704181-; ISBN 1-886362-23-8; TRN: IM9809%%102
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 56. Ironmaking conference proceedings, Chicago, IL (United States), 13-16 Apr 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Ironmaking conference proceedings: Volume 56; PB: 781 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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