SINTERING MACHINE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sintering machine easing a harmful effect on a yield rate, sintering time, and production rate by accurately measuring layer thickness throughout the entire in the width direction of a sintering material charging layer on a sintering machine pallet, and thus, accurately acquiring the ventilation state of the entire of the sintering material charging layer and uniformizing the ventilation state. SOLUTION: The Dwight-Lloyd type sintering machine 3 manufacturing sintered ore by sintering a sintering material charged on the sintering machine pallet 8 includes a material charging part 30 charging the sintering material on the sintering machine pallet 8, a layer thickness detecting part 40 continuously detecting the layer thickness in the width direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction of the sintering machine pallet of the surface of the material charging layer charged in the upper part of the sintering machine pallet by the material charging part 30, and a ventilation control part extracting ventilation increase required areas Ao11, Ao12 consolidated in flattening based on the layer thickness in the width direction of the charging layer detected by the layer thickness detecting part 40, and inserting ventilation rods 33a-33f in the extracted ventilation increase required areas. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT