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Dangerous Emissions During Steelmaking in Electric Arc Furnaces

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The steelmaking in the electric arc furnaces (EAFs) is in the category of industrial processes with high degree of pollution. In the air environmental factors are transferred the following dangerous substances: carbon oxides, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans and particulate matter. This chapter presents the categories of dangerous emissions generated from the steelmaking in the EAFs; potential sources that generate the dangerous emissions from the steelmaking in the EAFs; generation mechanisms of dangerous emissions from the steelmaking in the EAFs; methods of minimizing the dangerous emissions from the steelmaking in the EAFs.

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Iluţiu-Varvara, DA. (2016). Dangerous Emissions During Steelmaking in Electric Arc Furnaces. In: Cavaliere, P. (eds) Ironmaking and Steelmaking Processes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39529-6_15

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