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4 HBI in BF Fact Sheet - Rev3

The document discusses using hot briquetted iron (HBI) in blast furnaces for hot metal production. HBI can provide environmental, productivity, and cost benefits like lower carbon dioxide emissions, increased blast furnace productivity, and reduced coke rate. Reasons for using HBI include reaching output limits, limited coke production, high coke prices, needing to increase output during furnace relines, and balancing hot metal and furnace capacity.

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4 HBI in BF Fact Sheet - Rev3

The document discusses using hot briquetted iron (HBI) in blast furnaces for hot metal production. HBI can provide environmental, productivity, and cost benefits like lower carbon dioxide emissions, increased blast furnace productivity, and reduced coke rate. Reasons for using HBI include reaching output limits, limited coke production, high coke prices, needing to increase output during furnace relines, and balancing hot metal and furnace capacity.

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The Use of Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI) in the Blast Furnace (BF)
for Hot Metal Production

HBI can be used as blast furnace burden material with the following environmental,
productivity and cost benefits:

• lower carbon dioxide emissions


• increased blast furnace productivity (increase of about 8% for each 10% increase in
burden metallisation)
• reduced coke rate (decrease of about 7% for each 10% increase in burden metallisa-
tion)

Reasons for HBI Charging into the Blast Furnace


Various circumstances under which including HBI in the BF burden
could have a positive economic effect: Hot Briquetted Iron

• Output limit of a BF based on pellets and sinter has been reached and the downstream steel
mill has excess capability. Increase of hot metal production can be achieved without addi-
tional investment.
• Coke production capacity is limited and capital expenditure on coke ovens is not viable.
Therefore, the plant needs to reduce specific coke consumption.
• Purchased coke is used, but the price is sufficiently high to enable a reduced coke consump-
tion to offset higher cost when adding HBI to the BF burden.
• Out of several BF’s, one BF must be relined, so increased hot metal production is required
from the remaining BF’s to minimize downstream production losses.
• There is an imbalance between the required tonnage of hot metal and BF capacity: the
plant operates three BF’s when the hot metal output of somewhere between two and three
BF’s would be sufficient. Therefore, it can be economical to operate two BF’s at slightly
higher hot metal cost in order to optimize production of downstream facilities.

Under these circumstances, some increase in hot metal feedstock cost due to addition of HBI to
the BF burden can be justified on the basis of increased steel production, higher BF productivity,
reduced coke consumption, etc. HBI specifications for BF use can be less stringent than for EAF
steelmaking since higher levels of silica, iron oxides and sulphur and lower metallization can be
tolerated in the BF.

www.metallics.org IIMA Fact Sheet #4 (2017) [email protected]


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General Specifications for HBI (Ranges % by Weight)


(based on 65.5 - 68.0% Fe Iron Ore)
Metallization 94.0%
Fe (Total) 88.3 - 94.0%
Fe (Metallic) 83.0 - 88.4%
C 0.5 - 1.6
S 0.001 - 0.03%
P2O5 0.005 - 0.09%
Gangue* 3.9 - 8.6%
Mn, Cu, Ni, Cr, Mo, Sn, Pb, Zn, V Traces

Size (typical) (90 - 140) x (48 - 58) x (32 - 34) mm


Fines and chips ≤ 5.0%
Apparent Density > 5.0 t/m3
Bulk Density 2.5 - 3.3 t/m3
* residual unreduced oxides, mainly SiO2 and Al2O3,, but also CaO, MgO, MnO, etc.

Source: Midrex Technologies

Copyright International Iron Metallics Association Ltd. The information presented in this Fact Sheet is intended as general information only and should not be
relied upon in relation to any specific application. Those making use thereof or relying thereon assume all risks and liability arising from such use or reliance.

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