The Reducibility of the Iron Ore Materials as Instrument of the Coke Consumption Decrease in the Blast Furnace Smelting

Abstract

The technique of defining the minimum coke consumption in blast furnace smelting allows for the calculation of the reserve of coke economy on the basis of thermodynamic principles. In this reserve the constitutive role belongs to the reducibility of the iron ore materials (the agglomerate and pellets). In the present paper, the questions of the reduction kinetics of the iron ore materials and diffusion processes at reduction of iron from its oxides are considered. It is shown that the reducibility of the iron ore materials is the basic reserve of economy the scarce and expensive coke in the blast furnace smelting.