CA1276465C - High solids content coal-tar mixture - Google Patents

High solids content coal-tar mixture

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CA1276465C
CA1276465C CA000521424A CA521424A CA1276465C CA 1276465 C CA1276465 C CA 1276465C CA 000521424 A CA000521424 A CA 000521424A CA 521424 A CA521424 A CA 521424A CA 1276465 C CA1276465 C CA 1276465C
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Vittorio Errigo
Giuseppe Correra
Santi Palella
Giansilvio Malgarini
Francesco Tammaro
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C10PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
    • C10LFUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE OR UNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; FIRELIGHTERS
    • C10L1/00Liquid carbonaceous fuels
    • C10L1/04Liquid carbonaceous fuels essentially based on blends of hydrocarbons
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C10PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
    • C10LFUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE OR UNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; FIRELIGHTERS
    • C10L1/00Liquid carbonaceous fuels
    • C10L1/32Liquid carbonaceous fuels consisting of coal-oil suspensions or aqueous emulsions or oil emulsions
    • C10L1/322Coal-oil suspensions

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE:

By optimizing grinding conditions it is possible to obtain a grain-size distribution of coal milled together with tar that is especially suitable for the production of high-solide (> 50% by weight) coal-tar mixtures that are pumpable and easy to inject into the blast furnace.

Description

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The presen-t inventioll is concerned with a high-sollds coal-tar mixture. More precisely it concerns the grain-size distribution of the coal that permits attainment of more than 50~ solids (by weight) in the mixture without the use of additives.

The word coal in this description refers to any essentially solid carbonaceous fuel, such as coal, metallurgical coke, petroleum coke, semicoke, etc..
The use of auxiliary fuels injected at the tuyeres ensures great benefits as regards blast furnace productivity and energy consumption. However, fuel-oil, generally employed as auxiliary fuel, is a material whose cost and supply are dependent on nontechnical factors that may make its use unacceptable in plants such as the blast furnace operating in very delicate _ ,....

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U~ D~ Other type~ of auxiliary fuel have thus been sought. Coal-water mi~tures and coal~tar mixtures have been found interesting for a variegy of reasons~ essen-tiall~ conoerning cost, quality a~d svsilability.

Where coal-tar mixtures ~re concerned, one limitatio~ to date has been the fact th~t when the coal content of the mi~ture e~ceeds 40~ by weight, the apparènt viscosity of the mi~ture increases very rapidly, ~ith the result that at about 50~ solids (by weight) the mixture is no longer pumpable. Furthermore, above 40~0 solids (by weight) the spparent viscosity of the coal-tar mixture also increases markedly with time. This is thought to be due to sb-sorption of tar in the coal pores, thus considerably in-crea~ing the ~ercentage coal(by volume)in the mixture.

Because of these difficulties, reported recently in papers S44 and sl o8 st the 103rd and 105th Meetings of the ISIJ (April 1982 and April 1983), resRectively, the coal content of the co~l-tar mixtures used in indu~trisl trials in Jspan on B
5050 m~ blast furnace could not exceed 43% by weight(Proceedings, Fifth International Sympoqium on "Coal Slurry Combu~tion and Technology" 25-27/4/83, Tampa9 USA, Vol. 1, pages 361 et seq.).

Contrary to what has been reported on the ~tate of the art3 however, it has been found 9Urpri3illgly that a given coal grain- ize di~qtribution permlts production of coal-tar ~i~tures contai~ing more than 50~0 coal and having a vi C09ity ~uch a~ to render the mixture easily pumpable and injectable, and without any marked variations with time.

According to this i~vention, minuH 20-mm coal, ~elected from coking coals, difficult-to-coke coals, metallurgical coke and petroleum cok~ i9 fed to a mill tog~ther Yith the tar and ground to obtain the following gTain-size di~tribution:
- plue 500 ~m 0 (% weight) - minus 500 plu~ 250 ~m ~-2 n - minu~ 250 plu~ 8~ p~ 3-7 "
- minu~ 88 plu~ 44 ~m 9-18 n - minus 44 plus 11 ~ m 40-50 - minu~ m 30-45 n In thi~ way, depending on the type of coal used, the actual grain-size distribution obtained and the quantity of coal in the mixture, the apparent viscosity (Ha~ke MV II P, at 70C, 1800~, 28 9 ) i8 between 800 and 1200 cP approxi-mately, with good stability up to fourteen days without 6tirring and up to about thirty day~ with gentle ~tirrir~.
The grain-~ize distribution according to the invention ha~
enabled blast-furnace-proved coal-tar mixtures contaiDl~g up to 53.1~ coal (by weight) to be obtained; moreover, labora-tory fluidity~ stability, injectability and combu~tion tests indicate the po~sibility of utilizing coal-tar mixture-~ con-taining at lea~t 55% coal (by weight).

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Attainme~t of the desired grain-size distribution mu9t be studied" of course, on the basis of mill type, grind-ing parameter~ ~d the kind of coal employed. In any c~se~ however, the grain-~ize distribution indicated above must be attained.

For the purpoae of exemplification, without limiti~g the i~vention or claims thereto, indicatio~s are give~ belo~
o~ ~onditions for tro klndg of coal that hsve resulted in diverse type3 of mi~tures.
Exam~le 1 A medium-high volatiles, bituminous coking coal having the following characteristics:

Grain-~ize analysi 9 (~ weight) + 15 mm O
-15 ~ 8 mm 7.08 -8 + 2.83 mm 21.24 -2.83 ~ 1 mm 24.57 -1 ~ 0.25 mm 28.50 ~0.25 mm 18.61 Proximate analysi s (% weight) Moi~ture 3.0 hsh (db) 8.3 Volatile matter (db) 28.2 Fixed C ( db) 63 . 5 Ultimate _ analy~i g (~c wt dry basis- db) A~h 8a3 C 83.5 H 4.4 S 0.9 N 1.2 0 1.7 7~ ~5 5.
Hardgrove Grinding Index (HGI) 95 and a tar having the following characteristics.
Chemi ~
( ~ W+~ Q ) C (db) 94.5 H (db) 4.5 S (db) 0.5 ~ylene in~olubles: 6~o; A~h in i~solubles 0.15~; LHV 36.98 ~ g;
Specific gravity: 1.17 k ~ dm3; Apparent vi~cosity (70C, 1800 8, 28 8 ): 64 cP, were fed together to a four-compartment 0.42 m3 ball mill with a ball-load of 711 kg the size-grading of which wa~
Dia (mm): 16 18 20 25 30 weight: 12 13 25 30 20.

The mill was operated ~t 38 revolutions per minute (75~0 of critical speed) with a production rate of 100 kg~h.

Two mixtures were m~de, A andB, with oolid~ concentrQtions of about 43~0 and ~bout 53~0 re~pectively.

~he characteri~tics of these mixture~ were as follows:
M~xture A Mlxture 3 Percent coal (by weight) 42.8 51.6 Grain-~ize di~tribution ~ 500 ~m 0~4 0 -500 + 250 ~m 0.2 1.$
-250 + 88 ~m 5.6 3.2 - 88 + 44 ~m 8.9 9.3 44 ~ m 34.5 43.9 _ 11 ym 50,4 41.8 ~L.~ 7~4~5 Apparent viscosity c~
(70C, 1800 ~, 28 B ) 645 928 Pumpability ~Pa/100 m (1" pipe, V=0.05 m/~) - 0.14 Examule 2 Coke fines having the following characteri3tics;
Grain-size analyBi 8 (% weight) +15 mm o.46 ~15 ~ 8 mm 0.10 - 8 + 2.83 mm 19.95 -2.83 + 1 mm 35.20 -1 ~ 0.25 mm 26.60 _0.25 mm17.69 Proximate analy~is (~wt db) Carbon 84 Volatile matter 2.40 Ash 13.60 was charged together with the Example 1 tar to the same mill and was ground as per Example 1, but at ~ production rate of 50 kg/h. The mi~tures obtained - C and D - with target solid~ concentration~ of 44 and 53~, had the follow-ing characteristics:
ixture C M~xture D
Percent co~ (by weight) 44.3 53.1 Grain-size distribution + 500 ~m 11.2 0 -500 ~ 250 ~m 1.3 0-9 -250 + 88 ~m 6.5 5.9 - 88 + 44 ~m 13.8 17.9 - 44 ~ m 30.7 43.1 m 36.5 32.2 S

App~rent visco~ity c~
(~O~C9 1800 9~ 28 ~ ) 1090 950 Static stability, under~tood a~ being the ability of the mixture to maintain the carbonaceous ~oli~ part in ~uspen-sion and to prevent it from settling out 3 wa~ measured on Mixtures B and D. The te~t i~ mad~ with a 3 mm steel diamete~Y~ylinder weighing 30 g, the mes~urement reported being that len4th o~ a cylind~r which c~nnot penetrate depth of 180 mm of mixture in the undisturbed state.

Put another way, if the solid part of the mixture doe~ not separ~te out, the teqt cylinder penetrate~ completely into the mixture. If, on the other hand, solids separate out and are deposited on the bottom of the test container, the layer which forms prevents the cylinder from penetrating completely.
The number of millimetres of cylinder protruding above the free surface of the mixture provides the measure of the stab-ility of the mixture.

The values found for ~ixtures B and D are as follows:
Static stability test: mm not penetrated after ~ weeks ,`~ xture Ow 1w 2w 3 _ _ As i~ evident from these examples, grinding condition~
influence grain-3ize distribution of the ground solid; only s if the grain-size distribution falls within the ranges specified as per the invention are mixtures obtained with characteris-tics suitable for blast-furnace use, especially as regards pumpability and viscosity, which must be such as to permit pipeline transport of the mixture within a radius of several kilometres, followed by its injection at the blast-furnace tuyeres.

A type B mixture has been produced in a 3.5 t/h pilot plant in a one-week campaign and the resulting mixture injected without trouble at two tuyeres of a medium sized blast furnace a short distance away, producing 5500 tHM/24 h.
Mix-ture flow rate was between 500 and 100 kg/h per tuyere;
blast characteristics were: T=1200 C, Moisture 15 g/m N;
2 21%.

Claims (2)

1. A high-coal content coal-tar mixture especially suitable for injection as auxiliary fuel at the tuyeres of blast furnaces, characterized in that said mixture has a grain-size distri ution within the following range:

over 500 µm 0 % weight between 500 and 250 µm 1-2 "
between 250 and 88 µm 3-7 "
between 88 and 44 µm 9-18 "
between 44 and 11 µm 40-50 "
under 11 µm 30-45 "
2. A coal-tar mixture as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that it contains more than 50% by weight of coal and it has an apparent viscosity at 70°C between 800 and 1200 cP.
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