Blast furnace ironmaking remains a pivotal process in the production of molten iron, where maintaining operational stability and product quality is of utmost importance. Recent advances have seen the ...

The blast furnace remains the cornerstone of high‐volume ironmaking, utilising complex thermal and chemical reactions to reduce iron oxides into molten iron. Contemporary operations place increasing ...

CLEVELAND–Case Western Reserve University chemical engineer Rohan Akolkar is leading a research team working to develop a new zero-carbon, electrochemical process to produce iron metal from ore. If ...

Research by Global Energy Monitor finds significant low-carbon investments worldwide but ongoing commitment to coal- and ore-intensive blast furnace production in China and India. “Never before has ...

The process of ironmaking has relied for centuries on iron ore, an impure form of iron oxide, slowly being reduced to iron by carbon monoxide in a furnace. Whether that furnace is the charcoal fire of ...

Steel producer Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. says it will indefinitely idle its Indiana Harbor No. 4 blast furnace in East Chicago, Indiana. The blast furnace, one of eight the Cleveland-based company ...

PERTH, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Australia’s two largest iron ore miners and its biggest steelmaker have selected the Kwinana Industrial Area, south of Perth, as the location to develop Australia’s ...

EAST CHICAGO -- In the wake of soaring scrap steel prices, Ispat Inland Inc. is demolishing two 62-year-old blast furnaces to recover and reuse their metal in its steelmaking operations. The ...

Case Western Reserve leading research to develop zero-carbon, electrochemical process to produce iron metal as part of U.S. Department of Energy effort Case Western Reserve University chemical ...