By means of thermal analysis, specific heat values of sinter with different temperatures are measured and the linear function which along with the change of temperature is got. According to the actual condition, the porous medium model which describes the cooling process is established. The influences on cooling process of specific heat with fixed and variational values are compared. With the variational specific heat, the effects on cooling process of sinter initial temperature and air temperature are discussed. The result shows that both increasing sinter initial temperature and cold air temperature can improve the exhaust heat utilization, but the later delay the cooling time.

A new sintering method which considering the heat storage in iron ore sintering processis put forward in this paper.By means of thermal analysis, the kinetic properties of sintering burden with different proportion of coke are studiedand a few kinds ofreaction models are discussed by the liner correlation calculation.The results suggest that the oxidizingdecomposition of sintering burden can be described as a first - order chemistry reaction.Activation energies of three different sintering burdenswith different proportion of solid fuelare determined in this paper,thus can provide data basefor the new sintering method and heat storage model.

A new single screw expansion machine was developed in order to improve the practical level of low temperature thermal power generation technology and the utilization of waste heat and renewable energy. With compressed air as working fluid, the power, efficiency, gas consumption rate and temperature difference of single screw expander with rotational speed variation had been studied in an established experimental apparatus of single screw expander . The results showed that, the maximum speed of expander reached 3393r/min, the maximum moment of torque reached 22N•m, the maximum power of expander was up to 4.4kW, and the maximum inlet flow rate was 32.9m3/h. The maximum temperature difference between import and export of expander reached 45°C. The lowest gas consumption rate was up to 55.2kg/kW•h, and the maximum total efficiency of expander reached 58.8%.

The thermodynamics and dynamics characteristics of solid fuel combustion in sintering mixture were investigated in this paper. The combustion behavior of solid fuel in mixture was analyzed by thermogravimetric experiment, the solid fuel conversion with different fuel size and oxygen concentration was got by the experiment, the dynamic parameters: activation energy E and the pre-exponential A were theoretically calculated based on reaction kinetics model. The size and oxygen concentration were also the influence factors of combustion rate. The empirical data can be used to guide the simulation of actual sintering process and the dynamic parameters can be used in the establishment of the sintering model.