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Very fine-grained iron ore is agglomerated during the pelletizing process, which produces balls with a specific diameter range (often 8 mm to 20 mm), commonly known as pellets.
These pellets can be used in direct reduction and blast furnace procedures.
In contrast to sintering, pelletizing forms a green, unbaked pellet or ball that is later heated to harden it.
From beneficiated or run-of-mine iron ore fines, iron ore pellets can be produced.
Beneficiation is typically used to increase the iron ore content of lean iron ores.
This process produces iron ore filter cake, which must be pelletized in order to be used in the production of iron.
Additionally, produced fines from the processing of high-grade iron ores that don't require beneficiation can be pelletized and put to use as opposed to being thrown away.
Pellet plants can be found in steel mills, next to ports, or at mines.
They produce no solid or liquid residues and are practically pollution-free thanks to their cutting-edge environmental technology.
When a Swedish inventor named A.G. Andersson created a technology for pelletizing, the history of pellets officially began.
But after World War II, pellets started being used commercially in the USA.
In order to develop the enormous taconite (a low grade iron ore) reserves in the vicinity of the Great Lakes, numerous studies were carried out in the USA.
Taconite ore was upgraded and ground to remove gangues as part of the enrichment process.
The resulting high quality ore is in the form of tiny, unsuitable-for-sintering particles, measuring no larger than 0.1 mm.
The procedure of pelletizing was created in response to this problem.
A technique for processing taconite that contains low-grade iron ore was developed in 1943 by Dr. Davis, a professor at the University of Minnesota's Mines Experiment Station, and his colleagues.
Their discovery demonstrated that it was possible to ball or pelletize fine magnetite concentrate in a balling drum and that a hard, indurated pellet well suited for use in the blast furnace could be produced if the balls were fired at a high enough temperature (typically below the point of incipient fusion).
Dron ore pellet
Iron ore pellets could be either acidic or basic.
While basic pellets are often referred to as BF grade or fluxed pellets, acid pellets are also known as DRI (direct reduced iron) grade pellets.
Pellets of the DRI grade - These pellets typically have a basicity of less than 0.1.
The polycrystalline hematite bridges in the fired pellets are partially responsible for their strength.
Usually, these pellets have a lot of open pores.
Through these pores, the reduction gas enters the pellet core swiftly and concurrently damages the structure throughout.
As a result, the entire pellet volume experiences an early structural change that starts at low temperatures.
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