Dataset produced by automated sandrammer, clay-gun, and plate viscometer for three different tap-hole clays

In pyrometallurgical furnace operation, tap-hole clay is injected using a clay-gun into the tap-hole at the end of the tap to stop the metal and/or the slag flow, and to create a seal between the furnace contents and the environment. Commercial manufacturers of tap-hole clay report the workability index of their products, based on sand-rammer technology, as an indication of the rheological properties of the clay. In the paper presented here, a dataset is presented for three different tap-hole clays where an automated sand-rammer, pilot-scale clay-gun, and plate viscometer were applied. In all three instances, the data collection process was automated with raw data, available as Excel spreadsheets, published in an online repository. For the purpose of this paper, the data was analysed and presented as graphs or in tables. The data will be of future use for further studies into the effect of tap-hole clay rheology on clay-gun performance.

在火法冶金炉（pyrometallurgical furnace）作业中，出铁口泥（tap-hole clay）会通过泥炮（clay-gun）在出铁作业末期注入出铁口，以阻断金属液和/或炉渣的流出，并在炉内物料与外部环境之间形成密封。出铁口泥的商业生产商通常基于捣砂仪（sand-rammer）技术，报告其产品的可加工性指数，以此表征该泥料的流变特性。本文所呈现的数据集针对三种不同的出铁口泥，分别采用自动化捣砂仪、中试规模泥炮和平板黏度计（plate viscometer）进行测试。在这三组实验中，数据采集流程均实现自动化，原始数据以Excel电子表格格式存储，并已发布至在线存储库。为适配本文研究需求，已对该数据集进行分析，并以图表或表格形式呈现。该数据集可为后续开展出铁口泥流变特性对泥炮作业性能影响的相关研究提供支撑。