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Brex – A New Stage in the Agglomeration of Raw Materials for Blast Furnaces

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This article discusses the successful operation of an industrial-scale line built at the metallurgical plant of Suraj Products Ltd. in Rourkela (India) in April 2011 to produce briquettes by stiff vacuum extrusion. Made from metallurgical wastes (sludge and top dust) and iron-ore fines, the extrusion briquettes (brex) are a new component of the blast-furnace charge. The metallurgical properties of brex have made it possible to increase the brex content of the charge to 100%, eliminate limestone from the charge, and reduce coke consumption by 200 kg/ton.

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  1. Novolipetsk Metallurgical Combine, Lipetsk, Russia

    I. F. Kurunov

  2. J. C. Steele & Sons Inc., Statesville, NC, U.S.

    A. M. Bizhanov

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Translated from Metallurg, No. 3, pp. 49–53, March, 2014.

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Kurunov, I.F., Bizhanov, A.M. Brex – A New Stage in the Agglomeration of Raw Materials for Blast Furnaces. Metallurgist 58, 173–178 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11015-014-9887-1

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