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Blast furnace process continues to be the principal producer of hot metal for steel plant even today due to its size, volume of production, techno-economics, energy utilization efficiency and reasonable quality of hot metal compared to other alternative process of hot metal production.

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  1. Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

    Sujay Kumar Dutta

  2. Metallurgical Engineering Department, Government Polytechnic Rajkot, Rajkot, Gujarat, India

    Yakshil B. Chokshi

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    Discuss the basic principle of low shaft furnace. Discuss the advantages of low shaft furnace.

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    Discuss the basic principle of charcoal blast furnace.

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    Discuss the differences between the MBF and regular blast furnaces.

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    Compared the charcoal blast furnace and coke blast furnace.

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    Discuss the basic principle of electrothermal smelting process.

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    Discuss the basic principle of submerged arc furnace.

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    Discuss the basic principle of ELRED process.

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Dutta, S.K., Chokshi, Y.B. (2020). Alternate Ironmaking. In: Basic Concepts of Iron and Steel Making. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2437-0_9

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