Industrial sectors

Iron and steel

People in a metal processing control room monitor high-temperature industrial operations.

America’s steel resurgence

The U.S. is currently embarking upon a major resurgence of domestic production of iron and steel. The integrated steelmaking process, which employs the blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace steelmaking route, accounts for approximately 30% of steel production in the U.S. The remaining 70% of U.S. steel production is achieved through the electric arc furnace steelmaking process. Typical process temperatures range from 400°C to 1,700°C, depending on the specific process step.

U.S. steel production methods

70%


Electric arc furnace

30%


Blast furnace


Typical process temperatures range from 400°C to 1,700°C, depending on the specific process step.

Current heating technologies

Today in iron and steel process heating is used for calcining, sintering and agglomeration; heating of steelmaking vessels, metals and non-metals, process gas preheating, reactive thermal processing, heat treating and annealing of products, preheating of vessels and smelting of ores. Technologies such as induction heating offer greater energy efficiency and potentially superior products if thermal profiles and gas environments can be controlled.

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