CA2692082C - Cover for strand sintering equipment provided with a continuous strand sintering track - Google Patents

Cover for strand sintering equipment provided with a continuous strand sintering track Download PDF

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CA2692082C
CA2692082C CA2692082A CA2692082A CA2692082C CA 2692082 C CA2692082 C CA 2692082C CA 2692082 A CA2692082 A CA 2692082A CA 2692082 A CA2692082 A CA 2692082A CA 2692082 C CA2692082 C CA 2692082C
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Janne Ollila
Tom Ronnberg
Ari Ceder
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C22METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
    • C22BPRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
    • C22B1/00Preliminary treatment of ores or scrap
    • C22B1/14Agglomerating; Briquetting; Binding; Granulating
    • C22B1/16Sintering; Agglomerating
    • C22B1/20Sintering; Agglomerating in sintering machines with movable grates
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27BFURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • F27B21/00Open or uncovered sintering apparatus; Other heat-treatment apparatus of like construction
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27DDETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS, IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FURNACE
    • F27D1/00Casings; Linings; Walls; Roofs
    • F27D1/18Door frames; Doors, lids, removable covers

Abstract

A cover (1) for strand sintering equip-ment (3) provided with a continuous strand sintering track (2). The cover (1) includes a vaulted part (4) that extends on top of the strand sintering track (2).

Description

COVER FOR STRAND SINTERING EQUIPMENT PROVIDED WITH A
CONTINUOUS STRAND SINTERING TRACK
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a cover for strand sintering equipment having a continuous strand sintering track.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Continuous strand sintering is used after pelletizing concentrate powder to agglomerate the pel-lets, improving their strength and reactivity. As an example of the strand sintering technique, a strand sintering furnace could be mentioned, which is used in the production of ferro-chromium and divided into sev-eral sequential zones, different temperature condi-tions prevailing in each one of them. The strand sin-tering equipment includes a perforated steel belt, which is directed as an endless loop around two de-flector rolls. At the forward end of the furnace, wet fresh pellets are fed onto the steel belt to form a bed with a thickness of a few decimetres. The steel belt conveys the bed of pellets through the drying, heating, and sintering zones of the furnace and to a stabilizing or equalizing zone, after which the bed of pellets further travels through sequential cooling zones. After travelling through the cooling zones, the pellets in a sintered form exit the strand sintering equipment at its tail. To optimize the energy economy, the energy contained in the cooling gases of the tail of the furnace is used in drying, heating and sinter-ing at the forward end of the furnace, which is why the strand sintering equipment includes a number of gas ducts to implement the gas circulation mentioned above. For this purpose, the drying, heating, and sin-tering zones and the cooling zones comprise covers
2 that are provided with gas units. There is no gas unit in the cover of the equalizing zone.
In particular, the invention relates to the cover of the equalizing zone, which does not have the gas unit, and which in the known technology usually has a structure that includes a cover with side walls and an essentially horizontal flat roof, which extends between the side walls on top of the sintering track.
Inside the steel-framed cover, there is a refractory lining. The refractory lining is usually made of heavy ceramic material that withstands high temperatures.
Furthermore, the lining is poor in withstanding ten-sion. Flexural tensile stresses are formed in the pla-nar lining layer, which is why the steel frame that supports the lining must be very stiff, wherefore it becomes extremely heavy.
THE PURPOSE OF THE INVENTION
The purpose of the invention is to eliminate the disadvantages mentioned above.
In particular, the purpose of the invention is to disclose a cover, which enables the use of a lighter skeleton structure of the cover than before.
A further purpose of the invention is to dis-close a cover, wherein the tensile stresses exerted on the refractory lining are smaller than before and the strength of the lining can be improved.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the invention, the cover in-cludes a vaulted part that extends on top of the strand sintering track.
Because of the vault structure, the tensile stresses exerted on the cover become small, and mainly
3 compression stresses occur in the vault. Thus, it is possible to obtain a lighter cover than before. Fur-thermore, any tensile stresses exerted on the refrac-tory lining become smaller than before and the strength of the lining can be improved.
In one embodiment of the cover, the cover in-cludes side walls and a roof that extends between the side walls, the roof including the said vaulted part.
In one embodiment of the cover, the cover in-cludes a metal frame, which in the area of the vaulted part of the cover is arched like a vault and which in-cludes a lower side on the side of the strand sinter-ing track. The refractory lining is supported by a number of anchoring members to the lower side of the metal frame as a vault-like, arched layer. The metal frame can be made lighter than before, and in the hard and fragile lining that is good in withstanding com-pression but poor in withstanding tension, mainly only minor tensile stresses and mainly compression stresses occur.
In one embodiment of the cover, the metal frame includes a set of coolant channels for cooling the cover with a cooling intermediate agent conducted through the set of coolant channels. The cooling fur-ther improves the durability of the lining and the an-chor members of the lining.
In one embodiment of the cover, the vault-like part is an arched barrel-vault structure in the lateral direction of the strand sintering track, its centre of curvature being in the longitudinal middle plane of the strand sintering track.
In one embodiment of the cover, the vault-like part has a cross section of the shape of a circle segment.
In one embodiment of the cover, the vault-like part is elliptical or has the shape of a para-bolic arch.
4 In one embodiment of the invention, the vault-like part has the shape of an inverted cate-narian curve, i.e., a hyperbolical cosine. No tensile stresses occur in such an ideal vault shape.
In one embodiment of the cover, the cover is the cover of the equalizing zone of the strand sinter-ing equipment.
LIST OF FIGURES
In the following, the invention is described in detail by means of exemplary embodiments and with reference to the appended drawing, in which Fig. 1 shows schematically a side view of the strand sintering equipment comprising an embodiment of the cover according to the invention, Fig. 2 shows the cross section II-II of the strand sintering equipment of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 shows a perspective view of the cover of Fig. 3, and Fig. 4 shows the section IV-IV of Fig. 3.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Fig. 1 shows an example of an application of the cover, which is a strand sintering furnace that is used in the production of ferro-chromium and which is divided into several sequential zones I - VII, differ-ent temperature conditions prevailing in each one of them. The strand sintering equipment includes a perfo-rated steel belt 12, which is conveyed as an endless loop around two deflector rolls 13 an 14, at least one of which being a used roll. Wet fresh pellets are fed at the forward end of the furnace (left in the figure) on top of the steel belt 12 to form a bed with a thickness of several decimetres. The steel belt 12 carries the bed of pellets through the drying zone (I, a temperature of about 350 C), the heating zone (II, a temperature of about 1150 C), and the sintering zone (III, a temperature of about 1350 C) of the furnace to the stabilizing or equalizing zone (IV), after which the bed of pellets further travels through a sequen-
5 tial first cooling zone (V, a temperature of about 1250 C), second cooling zone (VI, a temperature of about 1150 C) and third cooling zone (VII, a tempera-ture of about 400 C). After travelling through the cooling zones, the pellets in the sintered form exit the strand sintering equipment at its tail. The strand sintering equipment includes a number of gas ducts 15, 16, 17 to implement the gas circulation mentioned above. For this purpose, the drying, heating and sin-tering zones as well as the cooling zones comprise covers that are provided with gas units. There is no gas unit in the cover 1 of the equalizing zone.
Referring to Figs. 2 to 4, the cross-sectional drawing of Fig. 2 comprises the cover 1 of the equalizing zone IV, comprising a vaulted part 4 that extends on top of the strand sintering track 2.
Cover 1 includes side walls 5 and a roof 6, which forms the vaulted part 4 and extends between the side walls 5. Cover 1 includes a metal frame 7, which in the area of the vaulted part 4 of the cover is arched like a vault. A refractory lining 9 is supported by a number of anchor elements 10 (see Fig. 4) to the lower side 8 of the metal frame 7 as a uniform layer that is arched like a vault. As seen in Figs. 2 and 3, the metal frame 7 comprises, in the area of both the roof
6 and the side walls 5, sets of coolant channels 11 for cooling the cover 1 with the cooling intermediate agent that is conducted through the sets of coolant channels. As seen in Fig. 2, the vaulted roof 6 is a barrel-vault structure, which is arched in the lateral direction of the strand sintering track 2, its cross section having the shape of a circle segment, and its centre of curvature being on the longitudinal middle plane of the strand sintering track 2. In another ap-plication, the vaulted part can be elliptical, have the shape of a parabolic arch or the shape of an in-verted catenarian curve, i.e., a hyperbolic cosine.
The invention is not limited to the above ex-emplary embodiments only, but many variations are pos-sible within the inventive idea defined by the claims.

Claims (5)

CLAIMS:
1. A cover (1) of an equalizing zone (IV) of a strand sintering equipment (3) having a continuous strand sintering track (2), the cover (1) including side walls (5) and a roof (6), extending between the side walls (5) and above the strand sintering track (2), the cover (1) further including a metal frame (7) having a lower side (8) on the side of the strand sintering track, and a refractory lining (9) supported by a plurality of anchor elements (10) on the lower side (8) of the metal frame, wherein the roof (6) comprises a vaulted part (4) in the area of which the metal frame (7) and the refractory lining (9) are vault arched, and the metal frame (7) includes a set of coolant channels (11) for cooling the cover with a cooling agent conducted through the set of channels.
2. A cover according to claim 1, wherein the vaulted part (4) is a barrel-vault structure, arched in the lateral direction of the strand sintering track (2), having a centre of curvature on the longitudinal middle plane of the strand sintering track.
3. A cover according to any one of claims 1 to 2, wherein the vaulted part (4) has a cross section shape of a circular segment.
4. A cover according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the vaulted part (4) is one of: an elliptical arch; and a parabolic arch.
5. A cover according to any one of Claims 1 to 4, wherein the vaulted part (4) has the shape of an inverted catenarian curve.
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