Agglomerates in Low-Carbon Metallurgy
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 344
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metallurgy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the field of low-carbon metallurgy, the rational utilization of various agglomerates—such as sinter, pellets, briquettes, and ferro-coke—is crucial for reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions. For instance, replacing energy-intensive sintering with the pelletizing process can significantly lower carbon footprints. Optimizing the blast furnace’s burden structure by increasing the proportion of high-grade pellets improves reduction efficiency and reduces coke consumption. Additionally, the use of carbon-containing briquettes made from recycling metallurgical dust, or partly replacing pellets by iron ore cold-briquettes in the blast furnace, helps to minimize energy waste and utilize secondary resources. Ferro-coke, as a functional burden material, integrates iron and carbon sources, potentially lowering emissions in the blast furnace.
This Special Issue will focus on the strategic preparation and application of the above agglomerates under the support of process innovation and circular economy principles, aiming to reduce carbon emissions from the source by optimizing raw materials and achieve low-carbon metallurgy.
Dr. Rongrong Wang
Prof. Dr. Zhengjian Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sinter
- pellets
- cold-bonded pellets
- cold briquettes
- ferro-coke
- low-carbon metallurgy
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