Study of transition processes of blast-furnace smelting by the mathematical model method

Abstract

In work possibilities of the developed computer model system for forecasting of a thermal condition of a blast furnace (on change of the maintenance of silicon in pig-iron) in a mode of real time are considered. The basis of the model is the fundamental knowledge of the theory and practice of the modern blast-furnace process, the use of regularities in the processes of heat and mass transfer, gas dynamics, slag formation processes in modern blast furnace melting. When solving the dynamic problem, it is envisaged to use the analytical (obtained on the basis of fundamental knowledge), but the linearized model of the domain process, the principle of small deviations and the natural-mathematical approach. In the algorithm for solving problems in transient blast furnace processes, the calculation of the dynamics of the change in the heating of the bottom of a blast furnace (based on the silicon content in cast iron) was performed according to the additivity rule by summing the predicted silicon concentrations in cast iron when the loading parameters (ore load) and the control actions on the thermal load the state of the furnace from the bottom - the consumption of natural gas, the concentration of oxygen in the blast and the humidity of the blast. Examples of calculations of the transient processes of the gas-dynamic resistance of the batch layer, the thermal state, and the productivity of the blast furnace are shown in the context of the changes in the properties and composition of the iron-ore materials being loaded and the parameters of the combined blast are applied to the conditions of PJSC "Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works" (MMK). © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.