Case Study: Application of HENFEL bearing housings in iron ore pellet roller screens Matheus Mendes Before we dive into the case study, a little background information may be necessary. An iron ore pellet is a tiny iron ore ball (between 8 and 18mm of diameter) composed of pellet feed and iron ore fines, which are the finest forms of the iron ore, mixed with a flux (in Brazil usually limestone) and a thickener, which gives the pellets their consistency. By courtesy of www.vale.com The Application Unlike lump iron, when iron ore is in the form of pellet feed and iron ore fines, it cannot be fed directly into the blast furnaces used in the steel industry. Therefore, it undergoes a process called pelletizing. The pellets are the most common base material of the steel industry; suffice to say

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