Utilization of biomass for iron ore sintering

Abstract

Decrease of carbon dioxide emission is a serious subject in the steel works. Utilization of biomass as a carbon-neutral agent is an attractive one for iron ore sintering. Sinter pot tests were carried out with using raw biomass and biomass carbonized char. It is not good on yield and exhaust gas that raw biomass is used directly as carbon material for iron ore sintering. While, it is good on the productivity and the exhaust gas (NOx, SOx, dust, dioxins) that biomass carbonized char is used as carbon material. With using biomass char for the sintering, it is necessary to optimize operation (size control and moisture control of the biomass char), because combustion rate of the biomass char is too high. Biomass carbonized char is evaluated on sinter yield as similar as anthracite or coke. The biomass char is effective to decrease CO2, NOx, SOx, dust etc. emission in sinter exhaust gas.