LAPSE:2020.0394
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LAPSE:2020.0394
Numerical Analysis on Velocity and Temperature of the Fluid in a Blast Furnace Main Trough
Yao Ge, Meng Li, Han Wei, Dong Liang, Xuebin Wang, Yaowei Yu
April 14, 2020
The main trough is a part of the blast furnace process for hot metal and molten slag transportation from the tap hole to the torpedo, and mechanical erosion of the trough is an important reason for a short life of a campaign. This article employed OpenFoam code to numerically study and analyze velocity, temperature and wall shear stress of the fluids in the main trough during a full tapping process. In the code, a three-dimensional transient mass, momentum and energy conservation equations, including the standard k-ε turbulence model, were developed for the fluid in the trough. Temperature distribution in refractory is solved by the Fourier equation through conjugate heat transfer with the fluid in the trough. Change velocities of the fluid during the full tapping process are exactly described by a parabolic equation. The investigation results show that there are strong turbulences at the area of hot metal’s falling position and the turbulences have influence on velocity, temperature and wall shear stress of the fluid. With the increase of the angle of the tap hole, the wall shear stress increases. Mechanical erosion of the trough has the smallest value and the campaign of the main trough is estimated to expand over 5 days at the tap hole angle of 7°.
Keywords
conjugate heat transfer, main trough, refractory, transient fluid of hot metal and molten slag, wall shear stress
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Ge Y, Li M, Wei H, Liang D, Wang X, Yu Y. Numerical Analysis on Velocity and Temperature of the Fluid in a Blast Furnace Main Trough. (2020). LAPSE:2020.0394
Author Affiliations
Ge Y: State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 102100, China
Li M: State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 102100, China
Wei H: State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 102100, China
Liang D: LaiSteel Research and Technology Center, LaiSteel, Jinan 250000, China
Wang X: LaiSteel Research and Technology Center, LaiSteel, Jinan 250000, China
Yu Y: State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 102100, China
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Processes
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8
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2
Article Number
E249
Year
2020
Publication Date
2020-02-22
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2227-9717
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