The paper deals with possibilities of low carbon technology application in metallurgy. It sums up the world wide experience with them and presents possibilities of their application in metallurgical production in view of carbon dioxide emission responsible for greenhouse effect and global warming of the Earth. It summarizes research projects in this field and presents the results and conclusion resulting from them. It is aimed at the possibilities of low carbon application in sinter and subsequently in blast furnace process. It presents research on reducibility of metallurgical ekosinter produced with share of biomass in comparison with sample of industrial one. It describes the testing methodology carried out in accordance with ISO 4695:2007. The samples were tested in reduction atmosphere created by 40% CO2 and 60% N2 simulating conditions in blast furnace aggregate at temperature 950°C. The obtained results confirmed better reducibility rate of ekosinter which reached the reduction index (dR/dt) 1.15, in comparison with industrial sinter of reduction index 0.83.
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The paper presents the possibilities of the application of different models for blast furnace operation management: thermodynamic and kinetic models and also coke degradation model. Thermodynamic and kinetic approaches in modelling metallurgical processes form are necessary basis for continuous analysis of the conditions under which the evaluated iron technology can actually work while achieving the highest productivity. They can be also useful for estimating of maximal rate of auxiliary fuels in specific conditions of the blast furnace iron making, what can help to optimize the cost of fuels. The aim of the article is to present the possibility of reducing the costs of pig iron production using models, especially the coke degradation model, which was used for Czech conditions. The model was developed in two options: a regressive non-linear statistical model, and a selflearning neuron network. Subsequently, both predictive model variants are compared.
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