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Structure evolution and performance analysis of blue-coke in the upper part of ferrosilicon furnace

  • WANG Yi ,
  • MA Cheng ,
  • ZOU Chong ,
  • LIU Shi-Wei ,
  • YU Nan ,
  • SHI Rui-Meng
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  • 1. School of Metallurgical Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an, Shannxi 710055, China 2. School of Electronic Information, Xijing University, Xi'an, Shannxi 710123, China 3. Inner Mongolia Zhengneng Chemical Company Limited, Ordos, Inner Mongolia 017200, China

Received date: 2022-04-29

  Revised date: 2022-07-20

  Online published: 2023-06-01

Abstract

A shaft furnace was used to secondary heat the blue-cokes which were manufactured by different temperatures of carbonization furnaces at the medium heating rate (10℃/min) and final temperatures of 800, 900, 1200, and 1600℃, as a way to simulate the state of the blue-coke during the downward movement of the upper part of the ferrosilicon furnace. The physical and chemical structure and reactivity changes of the incoming blue-coke at different heat treatment temperatures were studied by using nitrogen adsorption, Raman spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis, and the key aspects of the blue-coke affecting the furnace condition were analyzed with the results of industrial experiments. The results showed that with the increase of heat treatment temperature, taking 800 and 1200℃ as the turning points, the specific surface area and pore volume of blue-coke increased, then decreased and then increased until stable; the defects and amorphous structures in carbon chemical composition gradually changed into ordered carbon structures; the reactivity of blue-coke gradually became worse; and taking 1200℃ as the turning points, the resistivity decreased in stages. As the heat treatment temperature increases, the difference in pore structure, carbon chemical composition, reaction properties, and resistivity among different blue-cokes decreased. When the secondary heat temperature was higher than about 1600℃, the pore structure, carbon chemical composition, reaction performance, and resistivity of different blue-coke tend to be stable. In the upper part of the ferrosilicon furnace, the overburning of the blue-coke with a well-developed pore structure and better reaction performance after feeding into the furnace lead to the deterioration of the mechanical strength of the blue-coke and the increase of the charcoal consumption, which were the main factors affecting the difference of the smelting effect of different blue-cokes in the furnace. In the lower part of the ferrosilicon furnace, the physical and chemical properties of blue-cokes with different mass were similar, which was no longer the main factor affecting the furnace condition.

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WANG Yi , MA Cheng , ZOU Chong , LIU Shi-Wei , YU Nan , SHI Rui-Meng . Structure evolution and performance analysis of blue-coke in the upper part of ferrosilicon furnace[J]. The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering, 2023 , 23(5) : 744 -754 . DOI: 10.12034/j.issn.1009-606X.222156

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