Nigeria is blessed with abundant iron ore deposits of nearly 3 billion tonnes and other basic minerals for steel production including coal and limestone. Yet the Nigerian steel sector has collapsed principally due to shortage of raw materials particularly iron ore for the integrated steel plants and billets for the rolling mills. The privatization of the steel sector that was done in 2004-2005 ...

Steel has remained the most crucial of all structural materials. However, the steel production processes have changed over the years. Currently, due to the tendency of eliminating high energy consuming technologies, in both the international and domestic steel industry, liquid steel is manufactured in two basic aggregates: oxygen-blown converters and electric arc furnaces 1 . The development of...

Figure 1, compiled from data in the US Geological Survey indicates that, in 2004, 94% of vanadium used was consumed by the steel industry and 6% by all other uses. Figures 2 and 3 show data on steel production and vanadium consumption over a number of past years. Figure 2 indicates that in 2004 steel production reached a record level of 1.036 billon tonnes, driven largely by increases in steel ...

B. Gajdzik, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Katowice, Poland The publication presents the prognostic modeling of steel production in Poland by 2020. Based on the general framework predicting, an attempt was made to adjust the model to empirical data, which were related to the size of steel production in Poland. Two prognostic approaches were u...

Steel production is an extremely complex process and finding its coherent schedules for the wide variety of production steps in a dynamic environment, where disturbances frequently occur, is a challenging task. In the steel production process, the blast furnace continuously produces liquid iron, which is transformed into liquid steel in the melt shop. The majority of the molten steel passes thr...

Gh. H. Popescu, E. Nicolăescu, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest; E. Nica, Bucharest University of Economic Studies; G. Lăzăroiu, Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania The theory that we shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on technological features of China’s steel production, its emergence as the world’s most significant steel producer and main manufact...

this paper is focused on the tactical design of steel supply chain (ssc). a general mathematical model is proposed to integrate production and transportation planning in multi-commodity ssc. the main purpose is to prepare a countrywide production and distribution plan in an ssc with three layers consisting of iron ore mines as suppliers, steel companies as producers, and subsidiary steel compan...

There are multitudinous, multispecies, nonlinearity, multiphase and so on complex system time and space scales characteristics in steel plate production process, whose defects are divided into dominant defects and hidden defects. Real-time dynamic steel plate defects information can not be effectively and quickly converted, it is difficult to find the relationship among defects facts, defects r...

cost reduction is one of the methods applied for improving the productivity of organizations. in productivity literature, particularly in nonparametric methods, cost reduction related methods are regarded as input oriented models. this paper presents a supply chain management (scm) model in which purchasing iron ore and coke from different resources, along with production and distribution of st...