At present, cost reduction and environmental protection are the mainstream of blast furnace (BF) development and the high lump ore ratio is an effective means. Therefore, it is significant to explore the relationship and mechanism of burden soft-melt dropping and its primary-slag formation behaviors under increasing lump ore ratio. In this paper, the melt–drop test is carried out on the single ore and mixed burden, and obtained primary-slag properties are subjected to analysis. The experimental results show that the primary-slag of lump ore contains a large amount of FeO and SiO₂, so it simply produces many low melting point compounds, which cause terrible soft-melt dropping properties and primary-slag formation behaviors. Notably, mixing with sinter and pellet can effectively improve both the properties. With the increase in lump ore ratio, the CaO in the primary-slag decreases, FeO and SiO₂ increase, resulting in the melting temperature of the primary-slag sequentially decreasing and the cohesive zone moves to the low temperature zone. In addition, the maximum pressure difference increases, and the gas permeability deteriorates. Increasing the sinter ratio can overcome the defect of high lump ore ratio that can effectively improve the poor softening performance, melting performance and the position and thickness of the cohesive zone. However, because of the pulverization performance, the maximum pressure difference and gas permeability of the burden become worse.

In order to clarify the effect of the MgO/Al₂O₃ ratio on the fluidity of a low-alumina blast furnace slag system, the influence law of slag fluidity with different MgO/Al₂O₃ ratios was studied based on the composition of blast furnace slag through a viscosity experiment and themodynamic software. By studying the effect of the MgO/Al₂O₃ ratio on the activation energy of viscous flow of slag combined with FT-IR, the effect of the MgO/Al₂O₃ ratio on the thermal-stability of low-aluminum slag was interpreted from the microstructure level. Results indicated that the viscosity and the melting temperature of slag both showed a gradual downward trend due to the increase of the MgO/Al₂O₃ ratio. Besides, the temperature stability of the low aluminum slag became more stable due to the depolymerization of the complex structure of slag. Considering the actual operating conditions of blast furnace, the MgO/Al₂O₃ ratio of slag was suggested to be controlled to 0.60 and the basicity to be no higher than 1.20 under the conditions of this investigation. Industrial test results showed that the coke rate could be saved as 3.49 kg/t when the MgO/Al₂O₃ ratio decreased from 0.70 to 0.58.

A low-cost and high-efficiency solid reaction method has been reported as an effective technology to synthesize manganese ferrite MnFe₂O₄ with a spinel crystal structure. This work clarified the underlying reason for the influence mechanism of SiO₂ and Al₂O₃ on the synthesis of MnFe₂O₄. Synthetic MnFe₂O₄ polyhedral microparticles with a saturated magnetization of 71.19 emu/g, a ratio of saturation magnetization to residual magnetization (Ms/Mr) of 0.062 and a coercivity (Hc) of 6.50 Oe were successfully obtained at an oxidization roasting temperature of 1100 °C for 60 min. The experimental results indicate that the tetrahedral Mn²⁺ ions and octahedral Mn³⁺ ions in the crystal structure of manganese ferrite MnFe₂O₄ were replaced by tetrahedral Si²⁺ ions and octahedral Al³⁺ ions from (Mn²⁺)_x(Fe²⁺)_y(Si²⁺)_1−x−y[Fe³⁺]₂O₄ and (Mn²⁺)[Fe³⁺]_2−x[Al³⁺]_xO₄, respectively. In addition, hercynite Fe_xMn_1−xAl₂O₄ with a spinel crystal structure and olivine Mn_xFe_2−xSiO₄ with an orthorhombic crystal structure were partially formed in the synthesis of manganese ferrite MnFe₂O₄, in which some Fe²⁺ ions were easily replaced by Mn²⁺ ions to form stable hercynite MnAl₂O₄ and olivine Mn₂SiO₄ in these crystal structures. The current research work provides comprehensive insights for synthesizing manganese ferrite MnFe₂O₄ and continuously advances its technical progress.

In order to systematically elucidate the combustion performance of fuel during sintering, this paper explores the influence of three factors, namely coal substitution for coke, quasi-particle structure and the coupling effect with reduction and oxidation of iron oxide, on fuel combustion characteristics, and carries out the kinetic calculation of monomer blended fuel (MBF) and quasi-granular fuel (QPF). The results show that replacing coke powder with anthracite can accelerate the whole combustion process. MBF and QPF are more consistent with the combustion law of the double-parallel random pore model. Although the quasi-particle structure increases the apparent activation energy of fuel combustion, it can also produce a heat storage effect on fuel particles, improve their combustion performance, and reduce the adverse effect of diffusion on the reaction process. In the early stage of reaction, the coupling between combustion of volatiles and reduction of iron oxide is obvious. The oxidation of iron oxide will occur again when the combustion reaction of fuel is weakened.

Injecting hydrogen-rich fuel into blast furnaces is an effective strategy to reduce carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. The present study established a three-dimensional (3D) model based on a coherent jet of hydrogen-rich fuel. The combustion characteristics and the flow, heat, and mass transfer behaviors in the reaction region were simulated by the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method. The effects of fuel jet velocity on the distributions of gas velocity, temperature, and species in the reaction region were systematically analyzed. The results show that hydrogen-rich fuel burned around the main jet, generating a high-temperature, low-density flame. As flame length increased, the main jet experienced less decay. The outward expansion of the jet caused continuous diffusion of gas temperature and its components. As the fuel jet velocity increased, the temperature along the main jet centerline rose sharply, while the length of the high-concentration gas region extended. Doubling the jet velocity increased its centerline velocity by 11% and raised the average reaction region temperature by 4.12%. The obtained highlighted results are of paramount importance for optimizing hydrogen-rich smelting in blast furnaces.

In this paper, Huolinhe lignite was selected as the lignite experimental sample, using microwave modification and ultrasonic modification separately as improvement methods. The three-dimensional molecular models of HLH before and after modification were established base on the parameters obtained by ¹³C NMR, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Raman spectroscopy (Raman), and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR). After the microwave treatment, the methylene carbon in the HLH coal sample structure mostly exists in the form of long straight chains, and after microwave and ultrasonic treatment, the -OH content of oxygen atoms in the coal sample increases, and form the CO- and the COO-. The proportion is decreasing. The models were adjusted and tested by the covalent bond concentration method and carbon chemical shift spectra calculation using Chemdraw software. A new method is proposed to study the structure and physicochemical properties of lignite modification from the molecular point of view through this study.