7TH EUROPEAN COKE AND IRONMAKING CONGRESS - ECIC 2016

The blast furnace process is worldwide the dominant technology for producing metallic pre-products for steelmaking. Today, blast furnaces are operated close to thermodynamic equilibria. The carbon-based iron ore reduction process inevitably causes CO2 emissions. With regard to reducing CO2 emissions, the coke/pulverized coal injection operation is compared with various process alternatives:...