Special Issue "Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking"
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2023 | Viewed by 1102
Special Issue Editors
Interests: EAF steelmaking; industrial furnaces; process modelling and simulation; process analysis and optimization
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Interests: hot metal pretreatments; electric arc furnaces; converter metallurgy; ladle metallurgy; continuous casting; process modelling and simulation; kinetics and thermodynamics of metallurgical processes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Electric arc furnace steelmaking is one of the most important steelmaking routes and currently accounts for almost 30% of worldwide crude steel production. In certain regions and countries, the share is significantly higher, like e.g. North America with a share of electric arc furnace steelmaking of 65–70%. Considering the transformation concepts of the integrated steel mills to decarbonize their steel production and the increasing scrap availability in Asia, it can be expected that the share of scrap-based EAF steelmaking will continue to increase in the coming decades. Furthermore, the EAF serves as the basis for plans to melt DRI produced using hydrogen reduction to produce carbon-free steel.
In this Special Issue of Metals, we welcome contributions on recent advances in all aspects of electric arc furnace steelmaking including but not limited to EAF process optimization and efficiency, the application of new sensors and equipment, reduction of CO2 emissions and environmental impact, process modeling and simulation, scrap handling and alternative/new charge materials as well as slag properties and valorization. We also encourage the submission of reviews on EAF steelmaking technologies.
Dr. Thomas Echterhof
Dr. Ville-Valtteri Visuri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- electric arc furnace
- steelmaking
- sustainability
- modelling
- process optimization
