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The metallurgical industry is a trade where large amounts of waste are generated, including mill scale and iron-bearing sludge, which in the reduction process can be a valuable raw material for the production of sponge iron. In this publication the energy balance for such a process has been prepared and it has been shown that the electrical energy flow necessary to carry out reduction of mill scale with a CO + H2 gas solution is 17.48% of the total energy stream supplied to the process. The highest value of the supplied energy stream is chemical energy brought with a reducing gas of approx. 71.65%. The largest energy losses occur in gaseous products of reduction and constitute 57.15% of the total energy flux of products. Raising the temperature of the reaction gas from 25°C to 300°C reduces the electricity consumption about 14%. The determined energy losses to the environment are strongly dependent on the final design of the reactor for the reduction of iron-bearing materials.
Keywords: Reduction, iron-bearing waste materials, energy balance© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.