Estimating Porosity of Agglomerated Products Using Optimized Sphere Packing

Jose Antonio Marmolejo-Saucedo, Igor Litvinchev, Aitber Bizhanov, Georgiy Yaskov and Tetyana Romanova
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Jose Antonio Marmolejo-Saucedo: National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Igor Litvinchev: Nuevo Leon State University, Mexico
Aitber Bizhanov: J.C. Steele and Sons, Inc., USA
Georgiy Yaskov: Institute for Mechanical Engineering Problems, Ukraine
Tetyana Romanova: University of Leeds, UK

International Journal of Manufacturing, Materials, and Mechanical Engineering (IJMMME), 2024, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-19

Abstract: The article presents the results of studying the dynamics of changes in the porosity of two-component briquettes and pellets depending on the size of particles and the proportions of components in the mixture using an optimized packing of spheres. Knowing the patterns of change in the porosity allows to optimize the strength of the briquette and pellets as well as to improve their behavior in the reduction processes in blast furnaces, steel making furnaces and in direct reduction reactors. A computation experiment based on heuristic simulation model was designed to study the change of the estimated porosity under increasing/substituting the number of larger spherical particles in the mixture of spheres. The results obtained made it possible for the first time to reveal the extreme nature of the change in the porosity of the briquette/pellet with the addition of larger particles, depending on the fractional composition of the briquette. The results obtained open up new opportunities for optimizing the placement of fine-grained materials in the charge of metallurgical furnaces.

Date: 2024
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