1. Introduction. 2. Current Technologies for Ironmaking. 3. Issues Facing the Steel Industry. 4. Flash Ironmaking Technology – Concept Development. 5. Basic Properties and Sources of Magnetite Concentrate. 6. Principles Related to Iron Oxide Reduction. 7. Development of Flash Ironmaking Technology – Reduction Kinetics of Magnetite Concentrate Particles. 8. Development of Flash Ironmaking Technology – Tests in a Laboratory Flash Reactor. 9. Development of Flash Ironmaking Technology – Operation of a Pilot-Plant-Scale Flash Reactor. 10. Development of Flash Ironmaking Technology – Computational Fluid Dynamics Design of Flash Ironmaking Reactors. 11. Flash Ironmaking Flow Sheet Development and Process Analysis. 12. Economic Analysis of Flash Ironmaking Technology.
Biography
H. Y. Sohn is Distinguished Professor, Metallurgical Engineering at University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include Development of Flash Ironmaking; Plasma-Assisted Chemical Synthesis of Inorganic Nanomaterials; and Process Modeling. He received various prestigious awards and delivered numerous plenary lectures including a briefing to the U.S. Congress on environmental issues in the metallurgical industry. Dr. Sohn has co-authored 5 monographs, 36 book chapters, 5 patents, some 600 papers, co-edited 20 books and served as a Director of TMS-AIME and was a U.S. DOE Fossil Energy Lecturer.
