Minimise sinter degradation between sinter plant and blast furnace exploiting embedded real-time analytics

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High quality sinter produced with low costs and emissions is important for iron production. Stresses during transport generate return fines that must be processed again. Conventional sinter quality monitoring is slow and expensive. In MinSiDeg, several innovative on-line methods for continuous quality monitoring will be established, and combined and exploited within new embedded real-time tools for machine supported quality control. The degradation during transport will be minimised by new transfer systems. As a result, the losses due to transport will be minimised and high and stable quality sinter will be produced with low costs and energy consumption.