Method

New
Blast

I.

for Estimating

Furnaces

from

Wall

Introduction

At the Kakogawa
Works
the
shape of the cohesive zone is used
as a control guide for burden
distribution
in the blast furnace,
and
has conventionally
been detected
using only a descending
probe with
6 thermometers
in periodic charges.
A new estimation
method,
however, has been developed,
based on
the relationship
between
the shape
of the cohesive zone and the vertical
distribution
of the blast furnace
wall temperatures
measured
using
thermometers
set
in
the
stave
coolers.
This
method
makes
it
possible
to estimate
the shape of
the
cohesive
zone
continuously,
easily and at no expense.

II.

Estimation

Method

1.

Stave Temperature Index

From analyses of the relationship

between the vertical distribution of
stave temperatures
and the shape
of the cohesive zone detected by the
descending probe at the Kakogawa
No. 2 Blast Furnace, it was found
that stave temperature distributions
can be classified into 3 patterns
corresponding to the cohesive zone
shape, reversed
V, L and W.
Figure 1 shows the typical rela-

Shape

of Cohesive

Temperature

Zone

in

Distribution*

tionship between the shape of the

cohesive zone and the distribution
of stave temperatures and distinguishes between the differences
of the three patterns. In order to
quantify this relationship, an index
S was derived, using average temperatures Ts and TB in the upper
and lower part of the blast furnace,
respectively.
at

S = TB/Ts
(TS-Tav)(TR-Tav)>0

at

S= -TB/Ts
(TS-Tav)(TB-Tav)<O

where,

permits accurate estimates of the

cohesive zone shape, shown in Fig.
2(b), and allows instantaneous
operation control.
2. Application of the New Method
in Blast Furnace Operation
Figure 3 illustrates an operational analysis of the Kakogawa
No. 2 B. F. based on continuous
estimates using the new method.
The fluctuation in blast pressure
seen in the case of the L and
reversed V shapes is lower than in
the W type. Thus this method
provides a useful tool for analyzing
the operational condition of blast
furnaces as well as indicating the
effects that the properties of ore
and cgke have on a blast furnace.

S:

stave temperature index

T : : average temperature
of upper shaft (S-5'
5-3)
TB: average temperature
of lower shaft (S-2
B-3)
Tav: average of all stave
temperatures for a
given
period
(6
months or 1 year).
This index clearly isolates the
shapes of the cohesive zone detected
by the descending probe in 3
separate domains (see Fig. 2(a)).
Also, the application of this
method to daily blast furnace data

Fig.

3.

Effect
blast

Fig.

1.

Relation
shape

between
arid

stave

cohesive

of cohesive
pressure

zone

shape

on

fluctuation.

zone

temperature
Fig . 2.

distribution.

* For further information , write to Iron

Q 1986 ISIJ

& Steel

Technology

Center,

Estimation
Kobe

of cohesive zone sha pe by stave temperature

Steel,

Ltd.,

1-3-18,

Wakinohama-cho,

New

index.

Chuo-ku,

Technology

Kobe

651.

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