Ironmaking & Steelmaking, Vol. 48, No. 6 out now

With papers describing research on low-carbon smelting technology of blast furnaces – optimized design of blast furnaces, the effect of boron accompanied by chromium, vanadium and titanium on kinetics of austenite grain growth, and research on the terminal control model of intelligent mining of flame spectral information of converter mouths in the late smelting stage.

This new issue contains the following articles, which are available to members via My IOM3.

Modelling the effect of sinter machine speed on bed temperature and coke combustion characteristics in iron ore sintering process

R. Seenivasan, A. V. B. Acharyulu, V. Sabariraj, Jaiswal Arvind, Sah Rameshwar & G. Balachandran

Pages: 637-648

DOI: 10.1080/03019233.2021.1889893

Effect of boron accompanied by chromium, vanadium and titanium on kinetics of austenite grain growth

Beata Białobrzeska

Pages: 649-676

DOI: 10.1080/03019233.2021.1889894

Research on terminal control model of intelligent mining of flame spectral information of converter mouth in late smelting stage

Yanchao Zhang, Cai-jun Zhang, Kai Zeng, Liguang Zhu & Yang Han

Pages: 677-684

DOI: 10.1080/03019233.2021.1889907

Research on low-carbon smelting technology of blast furnace – optimized design of blast furnace

Z. Y. Guo, J. L. Zhang, K. X. Jiao, T. L. Gao, Y. B. Zong & J. Zhang

Pages: 685-692

DOI: 10.1080/03019233.2021.1889908

Influence of top gas recycling technology on operation parameters and CO2 emission of COREX process

Shun Yao, Bo Song, Shengli Wu, Mingyin Kou, Yifan Hu & Heng Zhou

Pages: 693-702

DOI: 10.1080/03019233.2021.1892398

Simulation and application of submerged CO2–O2 injection in EAF steelmaking: combined blowing equipment arrangement and industrial application

Guangsheng Wei, Rong Zhu, Shufeng Yang, Xuetao Wu & Kai Dong

Pages: 703-711

DOI: 10.1080/03019233.2021.1896068

Effects of residual elements during the casting process of steel production: a critical review

Ishwar Kapoor, Claire Davis & Zushu Li

Pages: 712-727

DOI: 10.1080/03019233.2021.1898869

Blast furnace injection for minimizing the coke rate and CO2 emissions

Alexander Babich

Pages: 728-741

DOI: 10.1080/03019233.2021.1900037

Model and application of hearth activity in a commercial blast furnace

Lian Ye, Kexin Jiao, Jianliang Zhang & Hengbao Ma

Pages: 742-748

DOI: 10.1080/03019233.2021.1907957

Review of hydrogen-rich ironmaking technology in blast furnace

Yanbiao Chen & Haibin Zuo

Pages: 749-768

DOI: 10.1080/03019233.2021.1909992