Air Pollution Problems and Control Measures in Steel Making Through Dri Route

Document Type

Contribution to Books

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Publication Title

Handbook of Environment and Waste Management: Air and Water Pollution Control

Abstract

© 2012 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. The tremendous demand for steel and shortage of steel scrap in the world market boost the efforts to develop alternative steel-making process than the conventional blast furnace (BF) – basic oxygen furnace (BOF) route giving birth to directly reduced iron (DRI/sponge iron) process during the 1980s. The technological topics covered are pollution problems encountered, control measures, and enforcement mechanism adopted for sponge iron plants.

DOI

10.1142/9789814327701_0003

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