Raw materials and their properties: Iron ore, Limestone, Agglomerates and Coke, Beneficiation of Iron ores. Preparation of ores: sintering and palletizing, blast furnace burdening and distribution, testing of raw materials for blast furnace. Design: Blast furnace profile, stove and gas cleaning units instrumentation, refractory used in blast furnace and stove. Reactions: Fe-C-O, Fe-O-H phase equilibria, Reactions in stack, bosh and hearth formation of primary slag, bosh slag and hearth slag. Slag composition and its control, Metal-slag reactions, Control of hot metal composition. Process Control: Factors affecting fuel consumption and productivity, Recent developments in Blast furnace operations like, Bell-less top charging system, High top pressure, Humidified & Oxygen enriched blast and Auxiliary fuel injection through tuyers.
Irregularities in blast furnace operation and their remedies.Alternative routes of iron making: Introduction, Processes of Sponge Iron production SL/RN, MIDREX, HyL processes. Smelting Reduction Processes COREX, ROMELT, Hismelt.

Analyze the importance of burden preparation in improving the efficiency of working of blast furnace.

To determine from theory as well as from practice the ways and means of increasing blast furnace productivity

1. Understanding of Raw Materials and their properties in Ironmaking.
2. Understanding of Agglomeration process in Ironmaking.
3. Comprehension of physicochemical principles involved in ironmaking.
4. Understanding of blast furnace slag and final hot metal quality.
5. Factors for improving blast furnace productivity.
6. Comprehension of alternative iron making processes.

A. K. Biswas, Principles of Blast Furnace Iron Making, SBA publication, Calcutta, 1999

Ahindra Ghosh, Ironmaking and Steelmaking Theory and Practice, The AISE Steel Foundation, 2004.

A.Ghosh and A.Chatterjee, Ironmaking and Steelmaking Theory and Practice, Prentice-Hall of India Private Limited, 2008

Ian Cameron, Mitren Sukhram, Kyle Lefebvre, William Davenport, Blast Furnace Ironmaking Analysis, Control, and Optimization, Elsevier Science, 2019

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