Still the iron age: iron and steel in the modern world
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 Construction -- 4 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 Production -- Energy 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 Requirements -- Forecasts.