Simulation of an Iron Ore Sinter Plant

This report refers to the work on the project "Parallel Distributed Method Applied to the Control of a Sinter Plant". A review on modelling and simulation of a sinter bed is given here. The model consists of raw mixture preparation and sintering in the bed, the simulation includes heat exchange between solid and gas, water evaporation and condensing, limestone decomposition, coke assumption, gas flow, fusion of the mixture and solidification. The process state at any point of the bed can be calculated. The effect of changing process state at any point of the bed can be calculated. The effect of changing process variables to sintering are investigated by running this simulation program. A dynamical simulation approach is proposed. The simulation algorithm described in this report will be used as a simulation model of the sintering process when investigating automatic control strategies for the sinter plant.