This book describes the available technologies that can be employed to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse emissions in the steel- and ironmaking industries. Ironmaking and steelmaking are some of the largest emitters of carbon dioxide (over 2Gt per year) and have some of the highest energy demand (25 EJ per year) among all industries; to help mitigate this problem, the book examines how changes can be made in energy efficiency, including energy consumption optimization, online monitoring, and energy audits. Due to negligible regulations and unparalleled growth in these industries during the past 15-20 years, knowledge of best practices and innovative technologies for greenhouse gas remediation is paramount, and something this book addresses.

• Presents the most recent technological solutions in productivity analyses and dangerous emissions control and reduction in steelmaking plants;
• Examines the energy saving and emissions abatement efficiency for potential solutions to emission control and reduction in steelmaking plants;

• Discusses the application of the results of research conducted over the last ten years at universities, research centers, and industrial institutions.

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Pasaquale Cavaliere is Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Salento in Italy. He received his PhD from the University of Rome. He has served as the Marie Curie Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Materials Science and Engineering Department. He is the author of over 200 papers, which have garnered over 2000 citations.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Clean Ironmaking and Steelmaking Processes: Efficient Technologies for Greenhouse Emissions Abatement.- Chapter 2. Coke making: most efficient technologies for greenhouse emissions abatement.- Chapter 3. Sintering: most efficient technologies for greenhouse emissions abatement.- Chapter 4. Blast Furnace: most efficient technologies for greenhouse emissions abatement.- Chapter 5. Basic Oxygen Furnace: most efficient technologies for greenhouse emissions abatement.- Chapter 6. Electric Arc Furnace: most efficient technologies for greenhouse emissions abatement.- Chapter 7. Smelting reduction: most efficient technologies for greenhouse emissions abatement.- Chapter 8. Direct reduced iron: most efficient technologies for greenhouse emissions abatement.- Chapter 9. Carbon Capture and Storage: most efficient technologies for greenhouse emissions abatement.- Chapter 10. Electrolysis of Iron ores: most efficient technologies for greenhouse emissions abatement.