Smelting reduction of carbon-chromite composite pellets - Part 1: Reduction kinetics and mechanism

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section C: Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy

Volumn 106, Issue MAY/AUG, 1997, Pages

  Ding, Y L ^a   Warner, N A ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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