Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare materials for feeding into sinter strand
- Access, interpret and apply documentation and procedures to sinter materials and ensure the work activity is compliant
- Add (reagents) to meet production targets and specifications
- Monitor and control moisture content of materials
- Monitor and control material feed rate
- Identify and remove feedstock material before processing begins
- Sinter materials
- Monitor and adjust correct suction rate throughout bed to ensure sintering is complete
- Identify and separate materials not meeting material size to raw material mix or other specified location
- Monitor and adjust temperature to maintain uniform distribution across the bed
- Screen hot sinter where applicable
- Check and confirm strand discharge chutes are working
- Confirm roll feeder is clear of debris and build-up
- Check and confirm condition of pallet seal and wind box to prevent leakage
- Check and confirm fire bars and spade pins are intact to minimise fall through of material
- Deposit blend across full width of strand
- Operate at full bed depth and constant waste gas temperature
- Cool and screen sinter and fines
- Receive and assess material size according to hearth layer requirements
- Maintain hopper levels ensuring contract feed to screening station
- Crush oversize material from scalping screens
- Monitor and cool sinter to the required temperature
- Monitor cooler operations to maintain required temperature, minimise air leakage, and meet cooling rate requirements
- Monitor and maintain appropriate depth of sinter on cooling pallets
- Operate environmental controls
- Prepare materials for feeding into sinter strand
- Access, interpret and apply documentation and procedures to sinter materials and ensure the work activity is compliant
- Add (reagents) to meet production targets and specifications
- Monitor and control moisture content of materials
- Monitor and control material feed rate
- Identify and remove feedstock material before processing begins
- Sinter materials
- Monitor and adjust correct suction rate throughout bed to ensure sintering is complete
- Identify and separate materials not meeting material size to raw material mix or other specified location
- Monitor and adjust temperature to maintain uniform distribution across the bed
- Screen hot sinter where applicable
- Check and confirm strand discharge chutes are working
- Confirm roll feeder is clear of debris and build-up
- Check and confirm condition of pallet seal and wind box to prevent leakage
- Check and confirm fire bars and spade pins are intact to minimise fall through of material
- Deposit blend across full width of strand
- Operate at full bed depth and constant waste gas temperature
- Cool and screen sinter and fines
- Receive and assess material size according to hearth layer requirements
- Maintain hopper levels ensuring contract feed to screening station
- Crush oversize material from scalping screens
- Monitor and cool sinter to the required temperature
- Monitor cooler operations to maintain required temperature, minimise air leakage, and meet cooling rate requirements
- Monitor and maintain appropriate depth of sinter on cooling pallets
- Operate environmental controls