This collection features contributions covering the advances and developments of new high-temperature metallurgical technologies and their applications to the areas of: processing of minerals; extraction of metals; preparation of metallic, refractory, and ceramic materials; treatment and recycling of slag and wastes; conservation of energy; and environmental protection. The volume will have a broad impact on the academics and professionals serving the metallurgical industries around the world by providing them with comprehensive coverage of a wide variety of topics.
Part 1: Energy Efficient Clean Metallurgical Technology.- Flash Ironmaking from Magnetite Concentrate in a Laboratory Reactor: Experimental and CFD Work.- Synthesis of Chromite for Subsequent Carburization by Methane-hydrogen Gas Mixture.- Effects of Hydrogen-enriched Reduction on Metallurgical Properties of Iron-Bearing Burdens under BF Operation with Cog Injection.- Microwave-intensified Reduction of Biochar-containing Briquettes.- Refractory Challenges in Lead Recycling Furnaces.- Synthesis of Carbide Ceramics via Reduction of Adsorbed Anions on an Activated Carbon Matrix.- Part 2: Simulation of High Temperature Process.- A CFD Based Algorithm for Kinetics Analysis of the Reduction of Hematite Concentrate by H2+CO Mixtures in a Drop Tube Reactor.- A Continuous Dynamic Process Model to Design a Carbon Profile toward Yield Improvement.- Alloy Yield Prediction Model Based on the Data Analysis in EAF Steelmaking Process.- Analysis of Jet Behavior and Surface Fluctuations in the Meniscus of Fluid in a Physical Model of a Beam Blank Mold and CFD Modelling.- CFD Study of Gas-liquid Phase Interaction Inside a Submerged Lance Smelting Furnace for Copper Smelting.- Debottlenecking High Temperature Metallurgical Plants through Modeling and Simulation.- Assessment of Slag Entrainment in a RH Degasser through Physical Modelling Using Circulating Fluids of Different DensitielãÂ