Review on modeling and simulation of blast furnace

S Kuang, Z Li, A Yu - Steel research international, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The design and control of blast furnace (BF) ironmaking must be optimized in order to be
competitive and sustainable, particularly under the more and more demanding and tough …

A review of burden distribution models of blast furnace

J Chen, H Zuo, Q Xue, J Wang - Powder Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
The burden distribution has an important influence on the heat transfer, mass transfer,
momentum transfer and chemical reactions of blast furnaces. Since the 1970s, metallurgical …

Numerical investigation of burden distribution in ironmaking blast furnace

Z Li, S Kuang, S Liu, J Gan, A Yu, Y Li, X Mao - Powder Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
The control of burden distribution at blast furnace (BF) top is of paramount importance and
mostly practiced in daily operations. However, to date, an effective method for optimizing top …

Coupled CFD-DEM with heat and mass transfer to investigate the melting of a granular packed bed

M Baniasadi, M Baniasadi, B Peters - Chemical Engineering Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The eXtended Discrete Element Method (XDEM) platform which is a Coupled
Eulerian-Lagrangian framework with heat and mass transfer, is extended for melting of …

[HTML][HTML] CFD modeling and analysis of particle size reduction and its effect on blast furnace ironmaking

L Jiao, S Kuang, L Liu, A Yu, Y Li, X Mao… - Metallurgical and Materials …, 2021 - Springer
Particle size reduction inevitably occurs inside ironmaking blast furnaces (BFs) but is not
studied under BF conditions due to the lack of an effective tool. This paper simulates this …

A Transient Discrete Element Method‐Based Virtual Experimental Blast Furnace Model

Q Hou, DE, S Kuang, A Yu - steel research international, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Intensive heat and mass transfer between continuum fluids and discrete particulate
materials occur in the current working‐horse blast furnace (BF) ironmaking process. To …

The discrete multi-hybrid system for the simulation of solid-liquid flows

A Alexiadis - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
This study proposes a model based on the combination of Smoothed Particle
Hydrodynamics, Coarse Grained Molecular Dynamics and the Discrete Element Method for …

Experimental and numerical investigation into the softening Behavior of a packed bed of iron ore pellets

M Baniasadi, B Peters, JC Pierret, B Vanderheyden… - Powder technology, 2018 - Elsevier
In this contribution, the softening process of a packed bed of pre-reduced pellets is
investigated numerically and experimentally. For this purpose, pellets were reduced to …

A review of high-temperature experimental techniques used to investigate the cohesive zone of the ironmaking blast furnace

X Liu, T Honeyands, G Evans, P Zulli… - Ironmaking & …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The softening and melting (S&M) under load test is widely used as a laboratory-scale routine
test to investigate the behaviour of ferrous burden materials in the cohesive zone (CZ) …

Improving the softening and melting properties of ferrous burden with high Al2O3 content for blast furnace by ore blending

S Wu, Y Lu, Z Hong, H Zhou - ISIJ International, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
In order to solve the problem of poor gas permeability of blast furnace caused by high Al 2 O
3 content in the burden, the softening and melting properties of sinter, pellets and lump ores …