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Materials Engineering—From Ideas to Practice: An EPD Symposium in Honor of Jiann-Yang Hwang pp 113–127Cite as

Concurrent Production of Iron and Syngas from Iron Ore and Coal Mixture

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This study is to explore the feasibility of iron and syngas co-production from iron ore and pulverized coal mixture in an enclosed vessel using microwave heating. Reactions take place after the materials are subjected to heating above certain temperatures. Coal serves as the reducing agent for iron oxide and the source of carbon and hydrogen for the syngas generation. The iron oxide serves as the iron source for steelmaking as well as the oxygen source for the carbon partial reaction to form CO. In comparison with conventional coal gasification, the oxygen comes from iron oxide instead of pure oxygen separated from the air. This study showed that direct reduced iron with over 95% metallization and syngas with total concentration of CO and combustibles over 80% were readily produced.

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  • Microwave
  • Steelmaking
  • Iron
  • Syngas

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy through a SBIR Phase I project.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA

    Xiaodi Huang & Jiann-Yang Hwang

  2. U.P. Steel, Houghton, MI, USA

    Rick Kauppila

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  1. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA

    Dr. Bowen Li

  2. The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Prof. Baojun Zhao

  3. CanmetMATERIALS, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Dr. Jian Li

  4. Military Institute of Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Prof. Sergio Neves Monteiro

  5. Central South University, Changsha, China

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  6. RHI Magnesita, Leoben, Austria

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  7. Central South University, Changsha, China

    Tao Jiang

  8. Futianbao Environmental Protection Technology Company, Xian, China

    Yong Shi

  9. Futianbao Environmental Protection Technology Company, Xian, China

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  10. Al Isra University, Amman, Jordan

    Dr. Shadia Ikhmayies

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Huang, X., Hwang, JY., Kauppila, R. (2021). Concurrent Production of Iron and Syngas from Iron Ore and Coal Mixture. In: , et al. Materials Engineering—From Ideas to Practice: An EPD Symposium in Honor of Jiann-Yang Hwang. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65241-8_11

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