To sustaistable operatioof a blast furnace， iroore fines produced during mining and ore dressing processes need to be agglomerated into lumps. Sintering is the most economical and widely used agglomeratiomethod for iroore fines. Also， the sintering technology cabe used for recycling of metal lurgical wastes produced by the ironmaking process. The aim of this book was to study the sintering behaviour of three kinds of unconventional ferrous materials （New Zealand ironsand， mill scale and filter cake wastes）and assess the feasibility of their utilizatioby sintering. The effects of sintering conditions othe formatioof mineral phases during iroore sintering were investigated to gaibetter understanding of sintering mechanism. Raw materials used ithis study were supplied by BlueScope Ltd.

CHAPTER1 GENERALINTRODUCTION
1．1 Introduction
1．2 Literature Review
1．2．1 A Brief Descriptioof Iroand Steelmaking Processes
1．2．2 Industrial Process of lroOre Sintening
1．2．3 Thermal and Chemical Processes during Sintering
1．2．4 Sinter Mineralogy
1．2．5Utilizatioof New Zealand Ironsand by IroOre Sintering
1．2．6 Utilisatioof Mill Scale by IroOre Sintering
1．2．7 Recycling of Iroand Steel Making Dusts
1．2．8 Summary and Objectives
1．3 Experimental Methods
1．3．1 Sample Preparatiofor Morphology
1．3．2 Optical Microscopy
1．3．3 Determinatioof the Volumetric Fractions of Mineral Phases
1．3．4 Scanning ElectroMicroscopy/Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy
1．3．5 Qualitative and Quantitative X-ray Diffraction
1．3．6 ElectroProbe Microanalysis
1．3．7 CarboContent Analysis
1．3．8 Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical EmissioSpectrometry
1．3．9 Control of OxygePartial Pressure of Sintering Atmosphere
References

CHAPTER 2 UTILIZATION OF NEW ZEALAND IRONSAND （TITANOUAGNETITE）BY IRON ORE SINTERING
2．1 Introduction
2．2 Experimental Procedure
2．2．1 Raw Materials and Preparation
2．2．2 Bench-scale Sintering
2．2．3 Characterisatioof Raw Materials and Sintered Samples
2．3 Results
2．3．1 Characterisatioof the Ironsand
2．3．2 Characterizatioof Relict Ironsand iIndustrial Sinter
2．3．3 Bench-scale Sintering of IroOre Mixes Containing New Zealand Ironsand
2．4 Discussion
2．5 Conclusion
References

CHAPTER 3 EFFECT OF SINTERING CONDITIONS ON THE FORMATION OF MINERAL PHASES DURING IRON ORE SINTERING
3．1 Introduction
3．2 Experimental Procedure
3．2．1 Sample Preparation
3．2．2 Sintering
3．2．3 Microstructure Analysis
3．3 Experimental Results
3．3．1Effects of Sintering Temperature and CaO/Si02 Ratio
3．3．2 Effect of Sintering Gas Atmosphere
3．3．3 Effect of Oxidatioduring Cooling
3．4 Discussion
3．5 Conclusions
References
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CHAPTER 4 INTERACTION BETWEEN NEW ZEALAND IRONSAND （TITANOMAGNETITE） AND FLUX MATERIALS
CHAPTER 5 UTILIZATION OF MILL SCALE BY IRON ORE SINTERING
CHAPTER 6 UTILIZATION OF FILTER CAKE WASTES BY IRON ORE SINTERING
CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSIONS