CSM Process is a continuous steelmaking process, developed to supersede electric furnace. In its demonstration plant, melting of scrap was carried out by a hot blast, liningless cupola to supply the steelmaking furnace with molten iron continuously for several days. The essentials of the cupola are to avoid bridging, which is caused by growth of skull at watercooled stack shell, and to keep the molten iron temperature
TM above a certain level. As a result of time series analysis with the records obtained during operation of the plant, following things were revealed.
(1) When the correlation of heat loss from stack shell
HS and windbox pressure
PB is neglegible while that of H
S and exhaust gas temperature
TE is appreciable, considerable melting should be taking place near the shell, and bridging is anticipated.
(2) As a function of blast temperature
TB and % coke
CR, the behavior of
TM can be expressed by a time series model, which is useful for forecasting as well as checking the stationarity. According to this model, 10°C rise of
TB should bring approximately 4°C increase in
TM without appreciable delay in average. Effect of
CR to
TM is estimated to be 515°C/% with 34 h delay.
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