Still the iron age : iron and steel in the modern world /
Although the last two generations have seen an enormous amount of attention paid to advances in electronics, the fact remains that high-income, high-energy societies could thrive without microchips, etc., but, by contrast, could not exist without steel. Because of the importance of this material to...
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier Ltd. : Butterworth-Heinemann,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Previous Works by The Author; 1 Iron and Steel Before the Eighteenth Century; Bloomery Iron; Blast Furnaces; Charcoal; Premodern Steel; 2 Rise of Modern Ferrous Metallurgy, 1700-1850; European and British Ironmaking before 1750; British Transition to Coke; Larger Furnaces and Hot Blast; Wrought Iron; 3 Iron and Steel Before WW I, 1850-1914; Blast Furnaces; Inexpensive Steel: Bessemer Converters and Open Hearths; New Markets for Steel.
- Steel in Transportation and Construction4 A Century of Advances, 1914-2014; From WW I to the End of WW II; America's Postwar Retreat; Japan in the Lead; Chinese Dominance; 5 Modern Ironmaking and Steelmaking; New Blast Furnaces; Direct Reduced Iron; Basic Oxygen Furnaces; Electric Arc Furnaces; Continuous Casting; Diffusion and Improvements; 6 Materials in Modern Iron and Steel Production; Materials for BFs and BOFs; Iron Ore; Metallurgical Coke; Material Balances of Integrated Steelmaking; Steel Scrap; Material Balances of EAFs.
- 7 Energy Costs and Environmental Impacts of Iron and Steel ProductionEnergy Accounting; Energy Cost of Steelmaking; Air and Water Pollution and Solid Wastes; Life Cycle Assessments; 8 Ubiquitous Uses of Steel; Infrastructures and Buildings; Fuels and Electricity; Transportation; Industrial Equipment and Consumer Products; 9 Looking Back; A Century and a Half of Modern Steel; Industry's State; Flows and Consumption Rates; Steel Stocks; 10 Looking Ahead; Substitutions; Lightweighting; Substituting Coke with Charcoal; Dematerialization; Absolute Dematerialization; New Processes.
- Future RequirementsForecasts; Appendix A: Units and Their Multiples and Submultiples; Appendix B: Some Basic Terms; Appendix C: Global and National Production of Pig Iron and Steel, 1800-2015; Appendix D: Production of Crude Steel, 1900-2014; References; Index; Back Cover.