Overview: Intended for graduate and undergraduate courses.Based on more than 30 years of teaching experience.Complemented with 55 exercises and problems related to the ironmaking.This textbook explores the production of pig iron, covering the first part of the steel production process, known as ironmaking. Divided into seven chapters, it discusses the following topics: raw materials for steel production (coking coal, iron ore, slag-forming agents and fluxes, scrap, ferroalloys and pre-reduced materials), the sintering process (used to prepare the burden for the blast furnace), the pelletizing
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