Ironmaking could be on the edge of a major upgrade. Scientists have developed a cleaner, electrochemical method to extract ...

Producing pig iron in a blast furnace is a key process in steelmaking, and according to Zhang, it contributes to more than 70% of both energy consumption and pollution emission in steel production.

Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there's growing demand for iron-derived products. Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified ...

A Blast Furnace can smelt gold, ores, iron, and metal tools twice as much as any regular furnace. However, it comes with ...

The current mainstream of steelmaking in a blast furnace involves massive CO2 emissions during the process of using coal to remove oxygen from iron ore. Nippon Steel has been working since May ...

The blast furnace will begin a 36-hour shutdown on ... we consider that an informed decision about a recapitalisation or sale process is expected to take a number of months after we are in a ...

British Steel is initiating consultations to close its blast furnaces in Scunthorpe after negotiations with the UK government regarding financial aid for a transition to electric arc furnaces fell ...

Chinese-owned British Steel confirmed Thursday plans to shut blast furnaces and other operations in England, saying US President Donald Trump's tariffs on the sector were partly to blame for a ...