a study on plasticity and compression strength in wet iron ore green pellets related to real process variations in rea material fineness英文资料.pdfVIP

Available online at Powder Technology 181 (2008) 321 – 330 /locate/powtec A study on plasticity and compression strength in wet iron ore green pellets related to real process variations in raw material fineness S.P.E. Forsmo a,b,⁎, P.-O. Samskog a,c , B.M.T. Björkman b a LKAB, RD, SE-98381 Malmberget, Sweden b Luleå University of Technology, Division of Process Metallurgy, SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden c Luleå University of Technology, Division of Chemistry, SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden Received 3 February 2006; received in revised form 6 May 2007; accepted 17 May 2007 Available online 29 May 2007 Abstract The main binding force in wet iron ore green pellets has been found to be the cohesive force of the viscous binder. The wet compression strength (wet-CS) in green pellets is, however, also influenced by the green pellet plasticity. A certain degree of plasticity is needed to sustain the green pellet growth rate. Too much plasticity results in decreased bed permeability and production problems. As the plasticity increases, wet-CS decreases. The amount of moisture needed to create a given degree of plasticity depends on particle properties and on the particle size distribution. Therefore, it was of interest to study how wet-CS would be influenced by variations in raw material fineness, if the green pellet plasticity was kept constant, i.e. the green pellet properties would be compared under relevant industrial balling conditions. For this purpose, magnetite concentrates of different particle size dis