Abstract
Mill scale is a waste product from steel hot rolling processes and containing a high amount of FeO and Fe3O4. It is crucial to recycle and reuse this waste for the recovery into a metallic iron or its single oxide derivative. One of the end products of mill scale oxidation is hematite which has multitude of uses in various application. In this present study, mill scale is converted to hematite by roasting a mixture of mill scale at a specific set of conditions at 900°C for a varied time under ambient air environment by addition of pelletized limestone as a heat storage media. In this work, the Dimensionless Degree of Oxidation Prediction Model (DDOPM) has been constructed to gain hematite purity approach in the resulting powder by using Matlab. The Buckingham Pi Theorem is used to find dimensionless parameters considering the effect of different parameters including the geometric factor of tubular horizontal furnace used, characteristic of mill scale, ambient air factor, and thermal characteristics of limestone. The degree of oxidation from experimental result was obtained from XRF analysis and compared to the result of DDOPM to show the correlation between the experimental and numerical.
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