The Making of Iron & Steel - SEAISI
The first metallurgical step is to reduce iron ore to metallic iron, a process which is mostly carried out in a blast furnace, using coke as both a fuel and reducing agent. The metallic iron produced by such a furnace contains a relatively high proportion of carbon (4%) and is passed to the steelmaking process as a liquid at approximately 1450C, called "hot metal". Refining: Steelmaking The ...
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