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Use of Biochar for Sustainable Ferrous Metallurgy

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Biochar has been extensively used in ferrous metallurgy in recent years as it has comparable metallurgical properties to coke and coal, showing great potential for reduction of the production cost of iron and steel with enhanced quality and for promotion of environmental protection. This article reviewed the main applications of biochar in the iron and steel industry, including its use in coking, iron ore sintering, production of metallized pellets, blast furnace ironmaking, and electric arc furnace steelmaking. The challenges of using biochar and corresponding promising measures were also discussed for sustainable development of the industry.

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This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 51811530108, 51504297, 51881340420, and 51774337, the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China under Grant 2017JJ3383, the Co-Innovation Center for Clean and Efficient Utilization of Strategic Metal Mineral Resources under Grant 2014-405, the Guangdong Guangqing Metal Technology Co. Ltd. under Grant 738010210, the Innovation-Driven Program of Central South University under Grant 2016CXS021, the Shenghua Lieying Program of Central South University under Grant 502035001, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University under Grants 2018zzts798, 2018zzts779, 2018zzts220, 2018zzts222, 2019zzts174, and 2019zzts706, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research under Grants 18-58-53055 GFENa and 16-29-14045 ofim, and Act 211 of the Government of the Russian Federation (contract no. 02.A03.21.0011).

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    Lei Ye, Zhiwei Peng, Liancheng Wang, Huimin Tang, Mingjun Rao, Guanghui Li & Tao Jiang

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Ye, L., Peng, Z., Wang, L. et al. Use of Biochar for Sustainable Ferrous Metallurgy. JOM 71, 3931–3940 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-019-03766-4

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