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 …

Bed permeability is a crucial factor in blast furnace efficiency and stability. The Discrete
Element Method (DEM) has been used extensively to model material flow in different parts of …

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 …

Low-rank coals can be upgraded to semicoke, and potentially used to partly replace
expensive metallurgical coals in pulverised coal injection (PCI) in ironmaking blast furnaces …

In a journey of centuries, the ironmaking blast furnace has gone through many technological
changes, which made it a fit-for-purpose till today. However, for the first time in history, its …

This paper aims to understand model the effect of vibration on particle percolation. The
percolation of small particles in a vibrated bed of big particles is studied by DEM. It is found …

Graphics processing unit (GPU)-based DEM combined with message passing interface
(MPI) has been applied to large-scale handling and processing systems, including granular …

The objective of this paper was to develop a prediction tool for the burden distribution in a
charging process of a bell-less-type blast furnace using the discrete element method (DEM) …

Particle segregation in the throat region of iron-making blast furnaces (BFs) is an important
issue, as the non-uniformity of burden materials due to segregation in the radial and vertical …

Hydrogen injection is a promising technology currently under development to reduce CO2
emissions in ironmaking blast furnaces (BFs). Therefore, hydrogen BF is studied by a recent …