Blast furnace equipment
Blast furnace equipment is designed for supplying charge materials into blast furnaces; for tapping, receiving and transporting such smelting products as cast iron and slag.
Cast Iron Ladle Cars
Designed for the transportation molten cast iron in the basket from mixer department to charging bay of the converter shop by traction rail vehicles.
Key characteristics:
| Ladle capacity, t | 100 | 140 |
| Turn radius, m | 75 | 75 |
| Axis load, ton-force | 40 | 52 |
| Ladle car base, mm | 4200 | 5000 |
| Weight of a laddle filled with cast iron, t | 130 | 180 |
| Cast iron ladle car weight, t | 40,2 | 49,6 |
Iron Casting Machines
Designed for teeming pig iron to casting molds, cooling teemed cast iron, and for loading hardened pig iron pieces on railway platforms.
Key characteristics:
| Number of conveyor chains, pc | 2 |
| Number of molds in one chain, pc | 154 |
| Pig weight, kg | 18 |
| The range of conveyor speed adjustment, m/min | 6 -16 |
| Size over the drum axis to takeup sprocket axis, mm | 42 535 |
| Conveyor drive power, kW | 61 |
| Power of ladle tipping winch drive, kW | 72 |
| Water consumption for molds cooling, m3/hour | 30 |
| Weight of cast iron casting machine, t | 216,5 |
Skip Hoists
This type of equipment is used for lifting skips with charge materials from a skip pit to the blast furnace charging device.
Key characteristics:
| Hoist model | LS-15 | LS-22,5 | LS-29 | LS-39 |
| Weight of ore in a skip, t | 15 | 22,5 | 29 | 39 |
| Maximum loading capacity, t | 19 | 25 | 41 | 61 |
| Lifting speed, m/s | 2,9/4,3 | 2,8/3,9 | 3,5 | 4 |
| Hoist weight, t | 65 | 75,3 | 80 | 120,2 |
Slag Cars
Designed for receiving slag from a smelting unit, its transportation and unloading to a dump or a granulation plant.
Key characteristics:
| Slag car type | 11SP | 16SP | 16,5SP | 16VP |
| Pan capacity, m3 | 11 | 16 | 16,5 | 16 |
| Weight of slag in a bucket, t | 38,5 | 56 | 58 | 56 |
| Drive type | sector-planetary | sector-planetary | sector-planetary | winding |
| Electric motor power, kW | 15 | 15 | 15 | 22 |
| Static axle load, tf | 28,6 | 31 | 31 | 32 |
Travelling Mixers
Designed for receiving molten cast iron from a blast furnace and transporting it to a BOF shop.
Key characteristics:
| Mixer capacity, t | 420 | 600 |
| Maximum travel speed, km/h | 10 | 10 |
| Minimum turn radius, m | 120 | 120 |
| Number of wheel pairs, pc | 16 | 24 |
| Maximum axis load, kН | 540 | 550 |
| Distance over the axes of the enclosure supports, mm | 20 000 | 19 000 |
| Mixer length over coupler axes, mm | 31 860 | 40 760 |
Other blast furnace type equipment:
- charge distributors;
- charging equipment;
- bell beams;
- bell control hoists;
- bell-free rotor-type charging device;
- iron taphole plug up machine;
- iron tapping machine;
- blast furnace hoist skips with capacity up to 20 m3;
- rope pulleys;
- conveyors for blast furnace filling.