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    1. The document contains 3 questions related to blast furnace operations. 2. The first question asks to sketch a blast furnace, identify zones, and chemical reactions. 3. The second question calculates the coke rate required per tonne of hot metal using mass balance equations. 4. The third question calculates the required top and bottom pressures for a furnace operating at a higher blast rate, keeping pressure drop and velocity the same.

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    1. The document contains 3 questions related to blast furnace operations. 2. The first question asks to sketch a blast furnace, identify zones, and chemical reactions. 3. The second question calculates the coke rate required per tonne of hot metal using mass balance equations. 4. The third question calculates the required top and bottom pressures for a furnace operating at a higher blast rate, keeping pressure drop and velocity the same.

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    Part A

    Marks: 35=15

    1. Draw a sketch of a blast furnace and identify different mechanical zones in the blast
    furnace. Draw the thermal profile along the height from the tuyere level to the top.
    Mark thermal reserve zone and chemical reserve zone. Write different chemical
    reaction in the different zone according to the thermal profile.

    Ans:
    2. A blast furnace uses magnetite ore (ignore presence of gangue material) and is
    operated with coke with 82 wt% C. Calculate the coke rate required per tonne of hot
    metal production.

    Given:
    Hot metal contains 4.3 wt% C (ignore other metalloids)
    Blast rate is 1402.13 Nm3
    Top gas contains 23 % CO, 18 % CO2 and rest is N2.

    Ans:

    Hot metal contains 4.3 wt% C. So, Fe is 95.7 wt %.

    Therefore, 1 tonne hot metal contains 957 kg of Fe and 43 kg of C.

    Let us say, x kg mole of coke is required for production of 1 tonne of hot metal
    assuming 100 % utilization of coke.

    Now,

    957 kg of Fe = 957/56 = 17.089 kg-mol.

    43 kg of C = 43/12 = 3.583 kg-mol


    m
    C

    Fe
    Content of C (in kg-mol) per kg-mol of Fe in hot metal, =
    3.583/17.089 =0.2097
    nOB
    x
    O

    Fe
    Let, number of mole of oxygen (O) in the blast is .

    Let, O (in kg-mol) per kg-mol of Fe in ore is = 1.33

    g
    O 0.18
    1 X CO
    g
    1 1.44
    C 2
    0.23 0.18
    Let, O (in kg-ml) per kg-mol of C is

    Hot blast contains 21 % O2 and rest N2.

    Oxygen in the blast = 0.211402.13 Nm3 = 294.4473 Nm3


    = (294.4473/22.4)
    = 13.145 kg-mol.

    As we are doing mass balance in O not in O2, the amount of O will be 213.145 kg-mol
    = 26.29 kg-mol.
    Iron (Fe) balance:
    i
    n Fe n Fe
    O

    (1)

    Oxygen (O) balance:


    x g
    O O
    i
    n
    Fe n
    B
    O nCg
    Fe C
    (2)
    Carbon balance:

    m
    C
    g 0.82 x n g
    n FeO
    n
    C
    C
    Fe
    (3)
    After getting from equation (2) and putting it in equation (3), we get,

    X = 45.88 kg-mol = 550.59 kg.


    3. A blast furnace is running at 2700 Nm3/m2.h and the top and bottom pressure are 1.1
    ata and 2.6 ata respectively. Calculate the top and bottom pressure required to operate
    the furnace at 3000 Nm3/m2.h blast rate keeping the linear gas velocity and the
    pressure drop the same. Given n = 1.8.

    Ans:
    Let us consider,
    Case 1:
    Pt1 1.1 PB1 2.6
    V1 = 2700
    Nm3/hr.m2

    Case 2:
    Pt2 ? PB2 ?
    V2 = 3000
    Nm3/hr.m2

    We know that,

    pb2 pt2 k ' v n

    Now from the problem statement,

    p B2 pt2 pB1 pt1 2.6 1.1 1.5 ata


    (1)
    And, n = 1.8

    Taking the ratio of case 2 and case 1 we get,


    p 2B2 p 2t2
    k ' v 21.8
    ' 1.8
    p B1 p t1 k v1
    2 2

    1. 8
    10
    PB2 Pt2 3.7 4.47
    9

    Or, (2)
    PB2 Pt2
    From equation (1) and (2), = 2.986 ata and =1.484 ata

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