The technology of ironmaking is central to the production of steel. Offering a comprehensive approach, this book provides insight into and guidance for understanding the use of blast furnace processes in this complex field of metallurgy.
Blast Furnace Ironmaking provides insight into and guidance for understanding the use of blast furnace processes in ferrous metallurgy. The book features collected R&D work by various experts in the field of ironmaking, the furnace operation, and material-specific case studies. The book:
- Discusses the recent scientific and technological advancements that have made the ironmaking process more efficient, automated, and environmentally friendly.
- Focuses insight gained on the key topics such as thermodynamics and reaction kinetics, the fluid flow and heat transfer, various zones of a blast furnace, etc. that prevail in the process.
- Outlines appropriate technologies of burden preparation through agglomeration and coke-making, as well as their key quality parameters.
- Highlights the blast furnace slag, its characteristics—especially in case of high alumina burden—and its desulphurisation capacity.
- Examines various methodologies for effective operation of the blast furnace and the control of variables to achieve greater productivity and increase fuel efficiency.
The book provides integrated and comprehensive coverage on the subject aimed at advanced students and academicians in metallurgical engineering and also serves as a technical reference to process technologists and R&D professionals seeking state-of-the-art information in the field of ferrous extraction.
Preface. Acnowledgements. About the Author.
Chapter
1. Introduction.
Chapter
2. Blast Furnace Ironmaking: Processes.
Chapter
3. Blast Furnace
Zones.
Chapter
4. Blast Furnace Aerodynamics.
Chapter
5. Chemical Reactions
in Blast Furnace Ironmaking.
Chapter
6. Physico-Chemical Phenomena in Blast
Furnace Ironmaking.
Chapter
7. Blast Furnace Operations and Practices.
Chapter
8. Liquid Metal and Blast Furnace Slag.
Chapter
9. Blast Furnace
Productivity and Coke Rate.
Chapter
10. Blast Furnace Burdens and
Characteristics.
Chapter
11. BF Coke, Characteristics, and Degradation.
Chapter
12. Agglomerates in Blast Furnace Ironmaking: Sinter and Sinter
Making.
Chapter
13. Agglomerates in Blast Furnace Ironmaking: Pellets and
Pelletization.
Chapter
14. Blast Furnace Modelling, Visualization, and
Control.
Chapter
15. Energy and Environment in Blast Furnace Ironmaking.
Chapter
16. Raw Materials and Coal in Blast Furnace Ironmaking.
Chapter
17.
Miscellaneous Topics. Index.
Ram Pravesh Bhagat served the Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad as professor after superannuation from the service of the CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory as Chief Scientist in 2014. He has over 40 years of R&D experience in organizations such as R&D Centre for Iron & Steel, SAIL, Ranchi, and CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur, specializing in beneficiation, agglomeration, and blast furnace ironmaking. He has initiated and pursued several R&D projects funded by private and public enterprises, also by government bodies.
He has published several national and international research papers, and book chapters. He has recently authored a book titled Agglomeration of Iron Ores, published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis.
