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Treatise on Process Metallurgy
Volume 5: Energy, Environment, and Future Aspects of Process Metallurgy
- 1st Edition - June 1, 2025
- Editors: Seshadri Seetharaman, Alexander McLean, Roderick Guthrie, Sridhar Seetharaman, H. Y. Sohn
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 7 3 2 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 7 3 3 - 8
Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Volume 5: Energy, Environment, and Future Aspects of Process Metallurgy, Second Edition is divided into two parts, with the first covering sustai… Read more
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Request a sales quoteTreatise on Process Metallurgy: Volume 5: Energy, Environment, and Future Aspects of Process Metallurgy, Second Edition is divided into two parts, with the first covering sustainable development as it pertains to process metallurgy, addressing issues arising from sustained economic growth, long-term mineral and metal supply, and energy requirements in metallurgical industries. It also examines energy resources, including fossil and renewable sources, and discusses the resource efficiency of the circular economy through simulation-based analyses. The second part delves into the future of metals production globally, with a focus on raw material and energy availability. It presents current CO2 emissions and future projections, with emphasis on reducing CO2 generation in steelmaking technologies. Additional topics discussed include flash smelting, FINEX process outlook, the rotary hearth furnace, and an extensive coverage of hydrogen steelmaking.
- Covers sustainable development of metals, insight on their current and forecast supply and demand, emissions reduction and use of energy in the metallurgical industry, and more
- Features simulation-based analysis of the resource efficiency of the circular economy, and the enabling role of metallurgical infrastructure as a part of recycling with reference to slags, utilization of metallurgical scrap form, and more
- Discusses the future outlook of metal production with particular attention paid to raw materials, energy availability, CO2 emissions, flash smelting, rotary hearth furnaces, and hydrogen steelmaking
Researchers and advanced students in the field of metallurgy
1. Environmental Aspects
1.1 Sustainability and the role of process metallurgy
1.2 Energy Resources, Role of energy and Use in Metallurgical Industries, fossil and renewable energy sources
1.3.1 Life Cycle Assessment and Related Methodologies
1.3.2 Material Flow Analysis
1.3.3 Simulation-based analysis of the resource efficiency of the circular economy – the enabling role of metallurgical infrastructure
1.4.1 Ironmaking and Steelmaking Slags
1.4.2 Ironmaking and Steelmaking Dusts
1.4.3 Steel scraps
1.5 Total recycling of dross from aluminium remelting
2. Future of Process Metallurgy
2.1 Global outlook-raw materials
2.2.1 Challenges towards a Low-Carbon Sintering Process of Iron Ores
2.2.2 Iron Blast Furnace Process
2.3.1. COURSE50”-CO2 Ultimate Reduction in Steelmaking process by innovative technology for cool Earth 50: CO2 emission reduction technology in Japan
2.3.2 Flash Ironmaking Technology: A new ironmaking technology with greatly reduced CO2 emissions and energy consumption
2.3.3 FINEX® Process - Process of Promise
2.3.4 Rotary Hearth Furnace Process
2.3.5. Hydrogen steelmaking
1.1 Sustainability and the role of process metallurgy
1.2 Energy Resources, Role of energy and Use in Metallurgical Industries, fossil and renewable energy sources
1.3.1 Life Cycle Assessment and Related Methodologies
1.3.2 Material Flow Analysis
1.3.3 Simulation-based analysis of the resource efficiency of the circular economy – the enabling role of metallurgical infrastructure
1.4.1 Ironmaking and Steelmaking Slags
1.4.2 Ironmaking and Steelmaking Dusts
1.4.3 Steel scraps
1.5 Total recycling of dross from aluminium remelting
2. Future of Process Metallurgy
2.1 Global outlook-raw materials
2.2.1 Challenges towards a Low-Carbon Sintering Process of Iron Ores
2.2.2 Iron Blast Furnace Process
2.3.1. COURSE50”-CO2 Ultimate Reduction in Steelmaking process by innovative technology for cool Earth 50: CO2 emission reduction technology in Japan
2.3.2 Flash Ironmaking Technology: A new ironmaking technology with greatly reduced CO2 emissions and energy consumption
2.3.3 FINEX® Process - Process of Promise
2.3.4 Rotary Hearth Furnace Process
2.3.5. Hydrogen steelmaking
- No. of pages: 600
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443337321
- eBook ISBN: 9780443337338
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Seshadri Seetharaman
Seshadri Seetharaman is Professor Emeritus at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Professor Seetharaman has more than 320 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 130 conference presentations and 10 patents. He is the editor for the books, "Fundamentals of Metallurgy" and "Treatise on Process Metallurgy". He received the President’s award for teaching merits in 1994. He was nominated as the best teacher in Materials Science eight times and was chosen as the best teacher of the Royal Inst. of Technol. In 2004. He has been visiting professor at Kyushu Inst. Technol., Kyoto university, Japan and TU-Bergakademie, Freiberg, Germany. He was awarded the Brimacomb prize for the year 2010 Hon. Doctor at Aalto University, Finland in 2011 and Hon. Professor at the Ukrainian Metallurgical Academy, 2011. Prof. Seetharaman is an Hon. Member of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan, 2011, He has been honoured as the Distinguished Alumni of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in the year 2013. He is currently a visiting professor at TATA Steel, Jamshedpur, India
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SwedenAM
Alexander McLean
Alexander McLean works in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRG
Roderick Guthrie
Roderick Guthrie works in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill Metals Processing Centre, Quebec, Canada.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill Metals Processing Centre, Quebec, CanadaSS
Sridhar Seetharaman
Sridhar Seetharaman is the Fulton Professor of Industrial Decarbonization at Arizona State University. He received his undergraduate degree from the Royal Institute of Technology and his PHD from MIT. He is a Distinguished Member and Fellow of the Association for Iron and Steel Technology.
Affiliations and expertise
Fulton Professor of Industrial Decarbonization at Arizona State University, USAHS
H. Y. Sohn
Hong Yong Sohn holds the rank of Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, having joined the Department of Metallurgical Engineering in 1974. He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University in Korea and his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1970 from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked as a Research Engineer at Du Pont’s Engineering Technology Laboratory. Dr. Sohn has authored or co-authored 7 monographs, 19 edited books, 28 book chapters, 11 patents, some 600 papers, and 39 technical reports. He has served as a Director of TMS-AIME (The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society), was a U.S. DOE Fossil Energy Lecturer, 1978–81, and is an Advisor to LS-MnM (formerly LS-Nikko Copper Inc.) of Korea and also Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM). He is an Honorary Professor of Metallurgy at the Kunming University of Science and Technology at the Anhui University of Technology, China.
Professor Sohn’s work has been recognized through various awards, which include the 2014 Educator Award from TMS; the Distinguished Scholarly and Creative Research Award, 2012 from the University of Utah; Billiton Gold Medal, 2012 from The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in the U.K.; the TMS 2009 Fellow Award “in recognition of outstanding contribution to the practice of metallurgical/materials science and technology” from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS); the 2001 James Douglas Gold Medal Award (“for leadership and outstanding contributions in research and education of nonferrous extractive metallurgy and for work related to the modeling of gas-solid reactors and the development of novel solvent extraction systems”) from the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME); Fellow Award from the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, 1998; the TMS Champion H. Mathewson Gold Medal Award (1993 “for the most notable contribution to Metallurgical Science in the 3–year period”); the TMS Extractive Metallurgy Lecturer Award (1990 “in recognition as an outstanding scientific leader in the field of nonferrous extraction and processing metallurgy”); the TMS Extraction and Processing Science Award (1990, 1994, 1999 and 2007, respectively, for analysis of flash furnace shaft; modeling of in situ solution mining operations; synthesis of ultrafine particles of intermetallic compounds; and analysis of the influence of chemical equilibrium on fluid-solid reaction rates and the falsification of activation energy); the Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer (1983); and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award (1977). In 2006, TMS honored Dr. Sohn by holding the “Sohn International Symposium on Advanced Processing of Metals and Materials”.
Professor Sohn’s research interests have covered a wide range of subjects, such as Development of a Novel Flash Ironmaking; Plasma-Assisted Chemical Synthesis of Inorganic and Ceramic Nanomaterials; Metallurgical Process Engineering including Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling; Nonferrous metal production (especially coppermaking at high temperatures); Fluid–Solid Reaction Engineering; Synthesis and Processing of Ceramic and Intermetallic Compounds; Hydrogen Storage Materials; Solvent Extraction. A major common theme through these research efforts has been the development and application of reaction kinetics theories, especially the engineering analysis of the reactions between solids and fluids. He coauthored a seminal monograph in the field, “Gas-Solid Reactions”, which had been a standard reference on the subject for more than 40 years: Professor Sohn recently updated and expanded the book as “Fluid-Solid Reactions” incorporating the massive amount of work he has continued on the topic since the publication of “Gas-Solid Reactions” and expanding the coverage to include reactions between a solid and a liquid. A major accomplishment by Professor Sohn in this field is the formulation of a rate law called “Sohn’s Law of Additive Reaction Times” that governs the reactions between solids and fluids that are affected by mass transfer processes. A new monograph entitled “Flash Ironmaking” he wrote at the request of Taylor & Francis Publishers has been released in March 2023.
Among the numerous plenary and keynote lectures Professor Sohn has given, he delivered a talk on “Novel Ironmaking Technology with Low Energy Requirement and CO2 Emission” to the U.S. Congress on April 21, 2008. He has also served as a technical consultant to many industrial companies, government units, and research institutes, in addition to serving on a number of editorial/advisory boards of international journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Professor, Metallurgical Engineering; Adjunct Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, USA