Recycling plastics as a resource for electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking: Combustion and structural transformations of metallurgical coke and plastic blends

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 379-391

  Sahajwalla, Veena ^a   Zaharia, Magdalena ^a   Kongkarat, Somyote ^a   Khanna, Rita ^a   Saha Chaudhury, N ^a   O'Kane, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b OneSteel   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY FUELS; BEFORE AND AFTER; CARBONACEOUS MATRIX; COMBUSTION EFFICIENCIES; DROP TUBE FURNACES; EAF STEELMAKING; ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE; END OF LIVES; END-OF-LIFE PRODUCTS; GAS-PHASE REACTIONS; LABORATORY TEST; MATERIAL RESOURCES; POLYMERIC MIXTURES; PORE VOLUME; PREMIXED; RESIDUAL CHAR; RUBBER BLENDS; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION; SURFACE AREA; VOLATILE MATTERS; WASTE MATERIALS; WASTE PLASTIC; WASTE TIRES;

CAVITY RESONATORS; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC FURNACE PROCESS; ELECTRIC FURNACES; ENERGY CONVERSION; FURNACES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); METAL REFINERIES; METALLURGICAL FURNACES; PHASE INTERFACES; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; PLASTICITY; POLYMER BLENDS; RECYCLING; RUBBER; SMOKE; STEEL METALLURGY; STEELMAKING FURNACES; SURFACES; THERMOPLASTICS; WASTE INCINERATION;

METALLURGICAL COKE;

EID: 77149170834     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef900875r     Document Type: Conference Paper

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