Design and application of digital management system for the sinter raw material plant
To solve the problems existed in iron and steel enterprise material plant, such as complex sources resulting in variety of materials, inaccurate inventory statistics leading to high cost, unpredictable external factors affecting material plant, etc., a digital management system is introduced in this paper. Firstly, the practical requirements and the process of material plant are analyzed. Based on the analysis, the new grid management and material balance methods are developed. Applying these methods, a new management system for material plant is designed, whose system configuration, hardware architecture, data flow, and functions of modules are introduced in details. Such system has been implemented in a large-scale iron and steel corporation sinter raw material plant. The operation results show that, this system has excellent capabilities and a promising application future in industries.
Operational simulation model of the raw material handling in an integrated steel making plant
This article is focused on the design and implementation of an operational simulation model (OSM) of the handling of raw material in an integrated steel making plant, considering operations of receiving, unloading, stocking, handling and supplying the different raw materials related to the production process with an operational perspective. The aim of this focus is to help in the decision making of the team controlling the ore inventory. Based on the methodological structure developed by Coelho (2008), this OSM showed that most of the valid concepts for simulations with a strategic focus do not present relevance from an operational point of view. The advantage of the OSM is the fact that it is not random or stochastic, but deterministic, while exhibiting behaviour considered satisfactory by management and steelyard team alike.
The role of dissolved oxygen in supercritical water in the oxidation of ferritic–martensitic steel
Abstract To assess the role of dissolved oxygen in supercritical water on the growth processes of oxide scales, a marker experiment of ferritic–martensitic steel was performed by exposing to supercritical water (H 2 16 O) containing marked 18 O 2 at 600 °C under 25 MPa. The oxide scale was analysed by using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS). The oxygen isotope profile shows that dissolved oxygen and supercritical water react with metals simultaneously. Dissolved oxygen changes the oxidation/reduction potential of supercritical water leading to an increase in the oxidation rate. The oxidation rate increases with increase in dissolved oxygen content in supercritical water. The mechanism of the effect of dissolved oxygen on oxidation is discussed.