The Design and manufacture of direct smelting
reactors depends on the rate of the physico-chemical
reactions that occur in the particles immersed into the
molten bath. Investigation of the effects of the important
parameters that influence the smelting rate of the
particles that in the furnace are both difficult and
expensive if the aimed is to take measure meuts under
real practical conditions. It is feasible of simulate the
process through application of the physico-mathematical
models that may be capable to predicting the influence of
the important variables such as (a) type and dimensions
the furnace, (b) analyses of the materials, and (c) size and
rate of feeding the particles. In this paper, the operational
conditions required to maximize the rates and the
efficiencies of heating, reduction, melting and purification of the reactor is investigated.
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