Blast Furnace - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Integrated coal-fueled steel mills accounted for ∼60% of the 1.4 Gt of global steel produced in 2008, consuming 15–18 GJ per t-steel produced and emitting a global average of ∼1.4 t-CO 2 per t-steel produced. In the first stage of the steelmaking process, high-grade coal (anthracite) is used to fuel a blast furnace in which iron is extracted by reduction from the ore hematite (Fe 2 O 3 ...