To improve the distribution of the reducing gas inside the shaft furnace, recently, a central gas distribution (CGD) device is installed at the bottom of the shaft furnace in Bayi Steel. In this work, a two-dimensional steady-state mathematical model, including momentum, heat and mass transfers and chemical reaction, is developed to study the performance of the furnace with CGD. The model is validated by industrial production data of COREX-3000, and then it is used to study the detailed phenomena in the furnace with CGD. The results show that, compared with the traditional COREX shaft furnace without CGD, the CGD device has a positive effect on improving the solid metallization rate (MR) and gas utilization rate (UR). The solid metallization rate (MR) increases from 0.601 to 0.628, the gas utilization rate (UR) increases from 0.3437 to 0.3519 and the standard deviation (STDEV) of solid MR decreases from 0.0820 to 0.0037, which means that the MR of the DRI from the furnace with CGD is more uniform than that without CGD. In addition, the effects of operation conditions and the CGD design on the solid MR, gas UR and STDEV of MR are discussed and the optimized conditions are suggested.
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