Title

BASF IRON ORE BINDER TECHNOLOGY: EFFECTS ON PELLET SIZING

Authorship

STEIN, STEFAN; DAVO, JORGE; VILLANUEVA, ADRIAN; HOFF, SHANE; KULKARNI, ABHAY

STEIN, STEFAN

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DAVO, JORGE

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VILLANUEVA, ADRIAN

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HOFF, SHANE

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KULKARNI, ABHAY

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DOI

10.5151/2594-357X-33713

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Abstract

Pellet sizing plays a key role in the productivity of the entire pelletization and subsequent induration processes, whereas uneven pellet sizing can increase the circulating load of the balling circuit inducing operational instability leading to production loses. The present work focuses in comparing the agglomeration kinetics, expressed as the number of pellets produced in a determined target size range, of different organic binder-bentonite binder systems. The batch experimental results show that the binder system has a great influence in the resulting pellet sizing, which could lead to advantages in terms of balling circuit efficiency and eventually operational de-bottlenecking.

Keywords

Organic binders; Agglomeration kinetics; Pellet sizing