На основании анализа преимуществ и недостатков кислородно-конвертерного производства Украины с комбинированной продувкой ванны кислородом и нейтральным газом предложена новая технология комбинированной продувки с использованием трехъярусной фурмы, обеспечивающая сохранение стойкости футеровки конвертера и более эффективное дожигание отходящих газов с предотвращением локального износа футеровки и интенсивного заметалливания ствола фурмы и горловины агрегата. В ходе лабораторно-промышленной проработки предложенной технологии установлено, что в зависимости от уровня расположения шлакометаллической эмульсии можно выделить два основных режима дожигания. Процесс дожигания необходимо организовывать таким образом, чтобы факелы находились в пределах полудиаметра области выхода потока СО, благодаря чему не допускается воздействие факелов на футеровку конвертера. Ключевые слова: конвертер, комбинированная продувка кислородом и нейтральным газом, трехъярусная фурма, дожигание отходящих газов, энергосбережение.
Background. In modern conditions, the BOP-process is the main method of mass use steel product production. At the same time, due to the shortage of high-quality charge materials, resource and energy-saving technologies are particularly relevant. To optimize the BOP-process under modern conditions, it is promising to use improved oxygen lances for top blowing in comparison with known designs.Objective. An important stage in the development of advanced steel production technologies is obtaining information on the thermodynamic model of blowing a converter bath through a three-tier lance with the elaboration of the regularities of oxidation processes within the reaction zone of a 160-ton industrial converter. Methods. The analysis that was carried out has a theoretical nature and is based on the definition of the influence of temperature and pressure on the regularities of oxidation processes within the reaction zones formed when oxygen jets are introduced into the volume of a metal bath, foamed slag-metallic emulsion and waste gases in the working space of the converter. As a thermodynamic parameter, the Gibbs energy was used to estimate the probability of chemical reactions. The pressure effect on the oxidation processes in the converter bath was evaluated in accordance with the Van't Hoff formula. Results. The thermodynamic features of oxidation processes in the 160-ton BOF bath using a three-tier lance are presented. Primary reaction zone is characterized by the occurrence of oxidation of manganese, silicon, carbon, and iron by gaseous oxygen. In the secondary reaction zone there are chemical reactions of the oxidation of silicon and carbon dissolved in the metal by oxygen, as well as the reduction of iron oxide by carbon. The presence or absence of a slag phase on the melt surface practically does not affect the occurrence probability of chemical transformations within the boundary of primary and secondary reaction zones. The additional secondary oxygen jets are characterized by oxidation of the oxide components of the slag and gas phases. Conclusions. During the research it was clarified the thermodynamical model of the oxidation processes in primary and secondary reaction zones, that were formed due to the interaction of 160-ton BOF bath with the supersonic and sonic oxygen jets flowing out of the separate groups of nozzles (of Laval and cylindrical shapes) of top three-level oxygen lance.
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