Ironmaking and Steelmaking
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2018) | Viewed by 153946
Special Issue Editors
Interests: high temperature reactions/phenomena of multi-component systems in metal manufacturing processes; sustainable steel manufacturing technologies; liquid metal processing; steel cleanness; mould powders for continuously casting new steel grades; energy and materials recovery in steelmaking; metal (steel and aluminum) recycling
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Interests: development of microstructure during processing from casting to product and the relationships between microstructure and properties (both physical and mechanical) in steels; non-destructive evaluation of microstructure and defects in metals using electromagnetic sensor techniques and modelling approaches
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Steel is a critical material in our societies and will remain an important one for a long time into the future. In the last two decades, the world steel industry has gone through drastic changes and this is predicted to continue in the future. The Asian countries (e.g. China, India) have been dominant in the production of steel creating global over-capacity, while the steel industry in the developed countries have made tremendous efforts to reinforce its global leadership in process technology and product development, and remain sustainable and competitive. The global steel industry is also facing various grand challenges in strict environmental regulation, new energy and materials sources, and ever increasing customer requirements for high quality steel products, which has been addressed accordingly by the global iron and steel community.
For this Special Issue, “Ironmaking and Steelmaking”, in Metals, we welcome reviews and articles from the international iron and steel community to cover the state-of-the-art of the ironmaking and steelmaking processes. This includes fundamental understanding, experimental investigation, pilot plant trials, industrial applications and big data utilization in the improvement and optimization of existing processes, and research and development in transformative technologies.
Dr. Zushu Li
Prof. Claire Davis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Ironmaking
- Steelmaking
- Sustainability
- Fundamental understanding
- Process optimization
- Transformative technology
- Industrial application
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