Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Volume 5: Energy, Environment, and Future Aspects of Process Metallurgy, Second Edition is divided into two parts, with the first covering sustainable development as it pertains to process metallurgy, addressing issues arising from sustained economic growth, long-term mineral and metal supply, and energy requirements in metallurgical industries. It also examines energy resources, including fossil and renewable sources, and discusses the resource efficiency of the circular economy through simulation-based analyses. The second part delves into the future of metals production globally, with a focus on raw material and energy availability. It presents current CO2 emissions and future projections, with emphasis on reducing CO2 generation in steelmaking technologies. Additional topics discussed include flash smelting, FINEX process outlook, the rotary hearth furnace, and an extensive coverage of hydrogen steelmaking.
1. Environmental Aspects
1.1 Sustainability and the role of process metallurgy
1.2 Energy Resources, Role of energy and Use in Metallurgical Industries,
fossil and renewable energy sources
1.3.1 Life Cycle Assessment and Related Methodologies
1.3.2 Material Flow Analysis
1.3.3 Simulation-based analysis of the resource efficiency of the circular
economy the enabling role of metallurgical infrastructure
1.4.1 Ironmaking and Steelmaking Slags
1.4.2 Ironmaking and Steelmaking Dusts
1.4.3 Steel scraps
1.5 Total recycling of dross from aluminium remelting
2. Future of Process Metallurgy
2.1 Global outlook-raw materials
2.2.1 Challenges towards a Low-Carbon Sintering Process of Iron Ores
2.2.2 Iron Blast Furnace Process
2.3.1. COURSE50-CO2 Ultimate Reduction in Steelmaking process by innovative
technology for cool Earth 50: CO2 emission reduction technology in Japan
2.3.2 Flash Ironmaking Technology: A new ironmaking technology with greatly
reduced CO2 emissions and energy consumption
2.3.3 FINEX® Process - Process of Promise
2.3.4 Rotary Hearth Furnace Process
2.3.5. Hydrogen steelmaking
Seshadri Seetharaman is Professor Emeritus at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Professor Seetharaman has more than 320 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 130 conference presentations and 10 patents. He is the editor for the books, "Fundamentals of Metallurgy" and "Treatise on Process Metallurgy". He received the Presidents award for teaching merits in 1994. He was nominated as the best teacher in Materials Science eight times and was chosen as the best teacher of the Royal Inst. of Technol. In 2004. He has been visiting professor at Kyushu Inst. Technol., Kyoto university, Japan and TU-Bergakademie, Freiberg, Germany. He was awarded the Brimacomb prize for the year 2010 Hon. Doctor at Aalto University, Finland in 2011 and Hon. Professor at the Ukrainian Metallurgical Academy, 2011. Prof. Seetharaman is an Hon. Member of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan, 2011, He has been honoured as the Distinguished Alumni of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in the year 2013. He is currently a visiting professor at TATA Steel, Jamshedpur, India Alexander McLean works in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Roderick Guthrie works in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill Metals Processing Centre, Quebec, Canada. Sridhar Seetharaman is the Fulton Professor of Industrial Decarbonization at Arizona State University. He received his undergraduate degree from the Royal Institute of Technology and his PHD from MIT. He is a Distinguished Member and Fellow of the Association for Iron and Steel Technology.
