In this paper, the sinter cooling process is numerically studied to get the pressure field, velocity field and temperature field when the fluid flows through the porous media by developing a two-dimensional unsteady state computational model. The inlet velocity, layer height, porosity and sinter layer distribution are the main parameters affecting the sinter cooling process. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique is employed to investigate the influences of thermal process of the four parameters. When high temperature sinters are loaded into the sinter cooler from the sintering machine, phenomena of the non-uniform distribution of sinter size takes place which always causes the non-uniform distribution of sinter temperature field and leads to the deformation of the conveyors. In order to get a uniform sinter temperature field, several recommendations are proposed. The results discussed in this paper would be important for the further understanding of the thermal process and transformation of the sinter cooler.