Tracing China's steel use from steel flows in the production system to ...
Import, export and inventory changes of raw iron ore. Ore preparation: Pretreatment of raw iron ore before entering the blast furnace (BF), including sintering and pelleting. Ironmaking: The process of reducing iron ore to pig iron, the current main reduction method in China is the blast furnace. Steelmaking: The process of smelting pig iron or ...