Improving Energy Efficiency in Iron Ore ... JSTAGE Home
1. Introduction. Iron ore sintering is an important preprocessing technology in integrated steel mills. Sinter accounts for around 70 wt.% of the ferrous feed to blast furnaces in the AsiaPacific region. 1) Sinter making is a complex process and can be viewed as comprising bed preparation under ambient conditions (or cold processing) and subjecting the bed to high temperatures by generating ...