steelmaking
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thumb|upright=1.2|Steel mill with two [[arc furnaces]]
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35 sectionsContents
- Steel
- History
- Early history
- China
- Europe
- Japan
- Industrialization
- Processes
- Primary steelmaking
- Basic oxygen
- Electric arc
- HIsarna
- Hydrogen reduction<span class="anchor" id="Hydrogen steel"></span>
- Secondary steelmaking
- Tertiary steelmaking
- Casting
- Forming and finishing
- Carbon dioxide emissions
- Mining and extraction
- Blast furnace
- Decarburization
- Calcination
- Hot blast
- Australia
- Europe
- Top gas recovery in BF/BOF
- Hydrogen direct reduction
- Iron ore electrolysis
- Scrap-use in BF/BOF
- H<sub>2</sub> enrichment in BF/BOF
- Other strategies
- China
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|upright=1.2|Steel mill with two [[arc furnaces]]
Steelmaking is the process of producing steel from iron ore and/or scrap. Steel has been made for millennia, and was commercialized on a massive scale in the 1850s and 1860s, using the Bessemer and Siemens-Martin processes.
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