Industrial Chemistry of Steel

This chapter on the Industrial Chemistry of Steel is a general overview of steel, its manufacturing and usage. A significant amount of the material in this chapter is presented in a tabular form and/or pie charts for the sake of brevity and clarity. There are several publications (Coudurier et al., Fundamentals of metallurgical processes; SIms, Electric furnace steelmaking, vol II: theory and fundamentals; Lankford et al., The making, shaping and treating of steel, United States steel; Gaines, BOF steel making, vol 1, introduction, theory and design Part 1; Clark and Varney, Physical metallurgy for engineers), monographs and brochures in the open literature covering almost all aspects of steel manufacturing. The interested reader is referred to that published literature for an in-depth understanding of the technology and further details.