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Nowadays the most important Direct Reduction — DR processes in shaft furnaces has to deal with carbon fines precipitation and DRI carburization issues. Based in a cooperative research program joining Catholic University (PUC-Rio) and SAMARCO Mining Co, a project dealing with pellets reduction and those two phenomena was established. This work analyzes kinetically the three reactions mentioned before, considering typical values for the operational variables temperature, flowrate, pressure and gas composition, parameters commonly used to control the DRI formation in the Reduction Zone — RZ of the shaft furnaces. From laboratories experimental results, the kinetic equations for those reactions were established and, using the superposition principle, generated a specific global kinetic model for the iron oxide reduction and the soot formation. Finally, using those experimental results and applying a planned statistical factorial analysis for the experiments, the numerical coefficients for each equation were calculated and the correlation factor determined for the proposed global kinetic equation.
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D’Abreu, J.C., Kohler, H.M., Falero, E.E.T., Otaviano, M.M. (2015). On the Simultaneous Iron Oxide Reduction and Carburization Kinetics. In: Jiang, T., et al. 6th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48217-0_32
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