- Title
- Variation in property parameters of iron ore granulated mix with moisture content
- Creator
- Li, C.; Moreno-Atanasio, R.; O'Dea, D.; Honeyands, T.
- Relation
- Iron Ore 2017. Iron Ore 2017: Building Resilience, 24-26 July 2017, Perth, Australia (Perth, W.A. 24-26 July, 2017) p. 79-84
- Publisher
- Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- The behaviour of iron ore granules in the feeding process of sintering is significantly influenced by the material properties of the granulated mix. Therefore, the measurement of key material properties of the iron ore granulated mix is indispensable prior to the simulation of the sintering process based on the discrete element method (DEM). In this paper, three key property parameters of the iron ore granulated mix, apparent density, elastic modulus and rolling friction coefficient, were measured in laboratory-scale experiments. For different sintering processes, the moisture content of the granulated mix normally varies according to the specific requirements for granule size distribution and operating conditions. Therefore, understanding the effect of moisture content on the property parameters of iron ore granules is very helpful in accurately determining the property parameters for DEM simulation work. In this paper, six groups of iron ore granule samples with six levels of moisture contents were prepared through granulation and the trends in apparent density, elastic modulus and rolling friction coefficient with the increase of moisture content were plotted and analysed based on the measurement results. The results show that as moisture increases from 6.9 per cent to 9.1 per cent, the apparent density decreases from about 3000 to 2800 kg/ m³. With moisture increasing within the same range, the elastic modulus first decreases from over 200 MPa to below 100 MPa and then reaches a relative constant value of about 40 MPa at higher moisture contents. Rolling friction coefficients are measured using two methods with both indicating a similar trend, with the rolling friction coefficient first decreasing and then rising as moisture increases from 6.9 per cent to 9.1 per cent. The relationship between μ, and μ', is assumed to be similar to that between static and dynamic friction coefficients.
- Subject
- iron ore; sintering; discrete element method; moisture
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1387248
- Identifier
- uon:32564
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781925100587
- Language
- eng
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