Coal use in iron and steel metallurgy ScienceDirect
For example, blast furnace ironmaking including sintering and coking plants consumes about 6575% of the entire energy at an integrated steelworks (ca. 1112 GJ/t hot metal) (Babich, 2009). Both direct and indirect coal use, in the form of coke, is presented. Use of coal and coke breeze for sintering is out of the scope of this contribution.