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Blast furnace process continues to be the principal producer of hot metal for steel plant even today due to its size, volume of production, techno-economics, energy utilization efficiency and reasonable quality of hot metal compared to other alternative process of hot metal production.
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Dutta, S.K., Chokshi, Y.B. (2020). Alternate Ironmaking. In: Basic Concepts of Iron and Steel Making. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2437-0_9
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