Book Description

This volume deals with energy consumption data for the production sequence that results in the output of raw steel, including ingots, steel castings and strand or pressure cast blooms, billits, slabs and other product forms. Material descriptions include mining of ore, smelting iron ore into pig iron, coke production, semifinishing of steel, oxygen production, and production of fluxes. Other items included are depletion of high grade U.S. ores, decreasing ration of coke to pig iron, shifts in steel furnace technology, and new technology trends.