Sustainability Enhancement of the Coal Based Direct ... Springer
Raw material utilization and waste generation for the DRI suggest that tonnes of ore, tonnes of noncoking coal and tonnes of dolomite are needed to produce 1 tonne of sponge iron and tonnes of solid wastes [2, 5].This implies that for every 10 tonnes of sponge iron produced, almost 2 tonnes of solid wastes are produced in the form of semiprocessed iron and coal char.