5th European Coke and Ironmaking Congress Stockholm June 12-15, 2005 PROCEEDINGS FIRST VOLUME TECHNISCHE INFORMATIONSBI3LIOTHEK UNIVERSTATSBIBLIOTHEK HANNOVER Organisation: Jernkontoret (The Swedish Steel Producers' Association) © Copyright by Jernkontoret, Stockholm, Sweden The liability of Jernkontoret is not involved by the contents of the various papers, which belong to their authors. Printing works: Snabbtryck AB TIB/UB Hannover 89 Skyfallsvagen 2 127 458 611 SE-791 77 FALUN Phone:+46 23 124 40 ISBN 91-974131-8-6 Mo1 - 1st Plenary Session Recent developments in North American ironmaking Mo1:1 Frederick C. Rorick, Roricklnc, UNITED STATES Joseph J. Poveromo, Quebec Cartier Mining Company, UNITED STATES Recent progress of practical BF operations in Japan and innovative trials for the future Mo1:2 Masaaki Naito, Nippon Steel Corporation, JAPAN Coke production and demand today and tomorrow - Face up to the reality? Mo1:3 Patrick Cleary, CRUInternational, UNITED KINGDOM Daniel Isler, Arcelor Research, FRANCE Hans Bodo Lungen, Wolfgang Rudack, Steel Institute VDEh, GERMANY Martin Reinke, Uhde GmbH, GERMANY Back to the future - Ideas for new blast furnace concepts Mo1:4 Bernd Korthas, Michael Peters, Peter Schmoele, ThyssenKrupp Stahl AG, GERMANY Mo2 - Coke quality for blast furnace Coke in the blast furnace - high temperature gasification behaviour in three dimensions Mo2:1 Nicolaos Andriopoulos, ChinEngLoo, BHPBilliton, AUSTRALIA Allan Jones, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA Blending of Canadian/Australian coals for making high-quality coke Mo2:2 for blast furnace ironmaking Ted Todoschuk, Dofasco Inc., CANADA Merrick Mahoney, Jeff Keating BHP Billiton, AUSTRALIA, Ross Leeder, Elk Valley Coal Corporation, Louis Giroux, John Gransden, John Price, Canmet, Energy Ttechnology Centre-Ottawa, CANADA Coke properties and behaviours in blast furnace Mo2:3 Jorn PufpaffThorsten Buhles, Joachim Janz, Stahlwerke Bremen GmbH, GERMANY Investigation of coke properties while descending through an experimental blast furnace Mo2:4 Tobias Hilding.Jan-Olov Wikstrom, MEFOS, SWEDEN Urban Jahnsen, Thyssen Krupp Stahl AG, GERMANY Olavi Kerkkonen, Rautaruukki Oyj, Ruukki Production, FINLAND Influence of heating patterns on quality and micro structure of coke Mo2:5 Yoon Seung-oh, Kang-ln.suk, Kim Sae-yoon, Pohang works, Posco, KOREA, REPUBLIC Investigating blast furnace coke samples to improve operational efficiency Mo2:6 Ruth Poultney, Rodney Bennington, Corus RD&T, UNITED KINGDOM Coal optimisation in the voestalpine coking plant Mo2:7 Andreas Gahleitner, Adolf Winter, Karl Pilz, Hermann Springer, Monika Friedl, voestalpine Stahl GmbH, AUSTRIA Mo3 - Efficient blast furnace operation: high productivity, low coke rate 1 Reduction of pulverized coal injection system stops Mo3:1 Fabiam Franklin, Jose Maria Reinaldo, Carlos Hilton Zanetti, Ricardo Sebastiao Nadur Motta, Alcides Jose de Lucena Silva, CSNParana, BRAZIL Blast furnaces pulverized coal injection rate control development linked to production rhythm Mo3:2 Marcelo Alves de Carvalho, Ricardo Sebastiao Nadur Motta, CSN Parana, BRAZIL New technology for injection of products of coal gasification into the blast furnace Mo3:3 IosifTovarovskiy, Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy, NAS Ukraine Yakov Gordon, Hatch, Mississauga, CANADA High oil injection rate and high productivity at Raahe blast furnaces of Ruukki Production Mo3:4 Markku Vetoniemi, Rauno Hurme.Rautaruukki Oyj, Ruukki Production, FINLAND Influence of natural gas injection on the operation parameters of iron blast furnace Mo3:5 K.S. AbdelHalim, Central Metallurgical R&D Institute, EGYPT The availability of H2 and CO in the lower part of the blast furnace by gas and oil injection Mo3:6 Sabine Slaby, Dietmar Andahazy, Franz Winter, Christian Doppler Laboratory, Vienna University of Technology, Christoph Feilmayr, Thomas Biirgler, voestalpine Stahl GmbH, A USTRIA Mo4 - Coke plant operation: instrumentation and automation 1 Effective calorific value of gas used to heat coke oven batteries in Mo4:1 modern integrated steel work Victor Zymla, Ecole Centrale Paris, FRANCE Tomasz Radko, Politechnika Slaska, POLAND, Frederic Honnart, Sollac-Atlantique, ARCELOR, FRANCE Introduction of a new kind of door-plug-system at the coke plant Schwelgern Mo4:2 and experiences after two years operation Giirsel Dogan, Konrad Hombach, Beck u. Kaltheuner GmbH & Co. KG Joachim Spitz, KBS Kokereibetriebsges. Schwelgern GmbH, Andreas Baaske, ThyssenKrupp Stahl, GERMANY Construction of the coke production complex on the basis of combination of Mo4:3 blend stamping and dry cooling Vasyl Gural, Donetsk Industrial Union, Vladimir Chub, JSC "Alchevskkoks", Viktor Rudyka, Vyacheslav Malyna, GIPROKOKS, Evgeniy Kovalov, UHIN, UKRAINE Operational and maintenance practices for production with a battery with two heating systems Mo4:4 Henrik Vuorinen, Mikael Krutrok, Kajsa Rydstrom, Gun Berglund, SSAB Tunnplat AB, SWEDEN, Development of a mobile chamber wall temperature measurement device Mo4:5 JoelBahe, Jean-Luc Karst, Yannick Hergalant, Jean-Paul Gaillet, CPM, FRANCE Mo5 - Efficient blast furnace operation: High productivity, low coke rate 2 High productivity operation at Pohang No. 4 blast furnace Mo5:1 Sang-Hong Lee, Jong-Bok Lee, Sang-Jin Nam, Posco Pohang works, KOREA, REPUBLIC Improved burden and gas distribution at Port Kembla number 5 blast furnace Mo5:2 Nicholas Di Giorgio, Peter Austin, Bradley Kaye, Sheng Chew, Jeff Dunning, Paul Sullivan, BlueScope Steel, AUSTRALIA Operational evolution of CSN's blast furnace 3 in the 3rd campaign Mo5:3 Fabiam Franklin, Jose Maria Reinaldo da Silva, Carlos Hilton Zanetti, Sebastiao Jorge Noblat, Marcelo Alves Carvalho, Flavio Lopes Machado, Francisco Nobrega de Aguiar, Fernando Tadeu Pereira de Medeiros, Moacir Alves dos Reis, CSN, BRAZIL High productivity, low coke rate blast furnace operation at Corus Strip Products Ijmuiden Mo5:4 Teun Bakker, Corus Strip Products Umuiden, NETHERLANDS No paper is available Development of blast furnace operation at SSAB Oxelosund AB Mo5:5 influenced by the changes in the coke market Bo Sundelin, OlaviAntila, Kerstin Konradsson, SSAB Oxelosund AB, SWEDEN The present day and perspective development of ironmaking industry in Ukraine Mo5:6 Volodymyr Shatokha, Stanislav Pliskanovs'kky, National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine, UKRAINE Vasyliy Kharakhulakh, Association "Metalurgprom", UKRAINE Tu1 - Efficient blast furnace operation: High productivity, low coke rate 3 Characterisation of raceway and deadman of BF No. 3 in Lulea - Tu1:1 Bjorn Jansson, Maria Lundgren, Lena Sundqvist Okvist, SSAB Tunnplat AB, SWEDEN Blast furnace best burden quality Tu1:2 A first assessment based on simulation tests Renard Chaigneau, Willemijn Husslage, Corus Research Development & Technology, THE NETHERLANDS, Fulton Hughes, Corus Strip Products, UNITED KINGDOM LKAB's experimental blast furnace - The learning curve Tu1:3 Lawrence Hooey, Rautaruukki Oy, Ruukki Production FINLAND, Bror-Erik Skold, MEFOS, Lena Sundqvist Okvist, SSAB Tunnplat AB, SWEDEN, Matti Seppanen, Rautaruukki Oy,Ruukki Production, FINLAND, Guangqing Zuo, LKAB, Lulea, SWEDEN Optimized use of BLT® and PCI with intelligent supervisor assistance (SACHEM®), Tu1:4 a guarantee for top class BF efficiency Michel Helleisen, Franck Giroldini, Arcelor Sollac-Lorraine, FRANCE Ian Carmichael, Robert Goffin, Claude Thirion, Paul Wurth S.A., LUXEMBOURG Optimization of coke consumption in blast furnace process by use of second saw of thermodynamics Tu1:5 Emrullah Cayir, M. Sevket Erol, Eregli Iron & Steel Inc. (ERDEMR), TURKEY Assessment of the blast furnace lower zone permeability based on casting parameters Tu1:6 Bhavin Desai, Tata Steel, INDIA R VRamna, Anjan Dey, Tata Steel, INDIA Tu2 - Coke plant operation, instrumentation and automation 2 Operation Experiences gained with "PROven" (Pressure Regulated Oven system) in the new Tu2:1 "Schwelgern" coke oven plant Joachim Spitz, Kokereibetriebsgesellschaft Schwelgern GmbH, GERMANY Ulrich Kochanski, Klaus-Peter Leuchtmann, Frank Krebber, Uhde GmbH, GERMANY Compacting of coal for heat recovery ovens Tu2:2 Rex Wright, Illawarra Coke Company PTYLtd., AUSTRALIA Ronald Kim, Franz-Josef Schucker, Uhde GmbH, GERMANY First operation experiences with the coke oven machines on the most modern coking plant of the world Tu2:3 Schwelgern under the aspect environment protection, automation and technical improvements RolfTapken.Kokereibetriebsgesellschaft Schwelgern GmbH, GERMANY Johannes Hartl, Schalker Eisenhiitte Maschinenfabrik GmbH, GERMANY Coke making under challenging conditions Tu2:4 Craig Stirling, Corus Strip Products, Steve Brant, Corus Construction and Industrial, John Poole, Teesside Cast Products, UNITED KINGDOM, Martin Mookhoek, Jan Dolfing, Corus Strip Products Ijmuiden, THE NETHERLANDS Investigation of factors influenced on coke cake pushing force Tu2:5 Sadayoshi Aizawa,Kazuya Uebo, Shuhei Yoshida, Mitsuo Miyahara, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., JAPAN Tu3 - Management of ironmaking by-products 1 Installation of a 'State of the art' slag granulation plant Tu3:1 Peter Eisen, Jurgen Witte, Huttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GMbH, GERMANY Martin Smith, Richard Harvey, VAI Industries (UK) Limited, UNITED KINGDOM, Enno Schumacher, Bogdan Vuletic, VAI FUCHS, GERMANY High temperature properties of iron and steelmaking by-product cold bonded pellets Tu3:2 Ryan Robinson, Lulea University of Technology, SWEDEN Lena Sundqvist-Okvist, SSAB Tunnplat AB, SWEDEN Tu4 - Efficient blast furnace operation: high productivity, low coke rate 4 Investigation