Direct and Smelting  Reduction

DRI/Sponge Iron in India
Jindal Steel & Power
Other Plants

Smelting Reduction Processes

This Page has been developed and is being maintained by P. K. Chaudhuri

Direct Reduction Processes

Gas based processes

• Midrex Direct Reduction Corporation is an international direct reduction technology company, principally known for the MIDREX ^® Direct Reduction Process. This process converts iron ore into a highly metallized, low residual iron product for use in steelmaking, ironmaking, and foundry applications.
  Follow the links in the home page for more information on Midrex Process, DHR/HBI, Fastmet Process, Statistics, etc.

• HBI Production Processes
  HBI is a form of DRI that has been compacted into briquettes. DRI is directly reduced iron. Commonly used as a scrap substitute in electric arc furnaces.

Other links : Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI)
                            Direct Reduced Iron (DRI)

  Coal Based DRI Processes

• Circulating Fluid Bed (Circo Processes) for Fine Ores

See the site at Lurgi Program on Metallurgy for more information by e-mail.

DR/Sponge Iron Plants in India

• Jindal Steel & Power - Indian Steel Manufacturers & Exporters of sponge iron, mild steel slabs, ferro chrome, iron ore, mild steel & power, coal based sponge iron . See Jindal's home page

• Other Sponge Iron Plant in India

For address and other information on sponge iron plants in India look up at sites of Indian Economy and India Info Lines 

Smelting Reduction
( An alternative route to Iron making )

Iron and Alternative Iron Production Abstracts
Iron and Alternate Iron Production abstracts of papers presented at the 1999 AISE Annual Convention technical sessions held in conjunction with the Iron and Steel Exposition®.
http://www.aise.org/conexpo/ironab.htm

New Steel Alternative Iron: Corex and cogeneration at Jindal
Jindal's green field steelworks in southern India  have two large Corex plants. The company also is installing two 130-megawatt power plants to recycle the Corex gas : by N. NARAYAN  http://www.newsteel.com/features/NS9708f6.htm

 Direct Reduction and Smelting Processes
An excerpt from the Ironmaking Volume of The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel. http://www.aise.org/magazine/99jun75_77.htm