**Meet the editor**

Volodymyr Shatokha graduated in 1982 as a ferrous metallurgy engineer and in 1985 received his PhD degree from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (since 1999; National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine). In 1998, he received the title of being a professor with the ironmaking chair. During 1999–2002, he was the dean of the Metallurgical Faculty. Since 2002,

he works as the vice rector for Research and Education. His research deals mainly with properties of iron ore materials, physicochemical processes of ironmaking, recycling methods, sustainability analysis, and so on. He is the author of over 150 research papers, 7 books and 7 patents. He is an honorary professor at the Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, China; a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo (2013); a laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2010); and a fellow of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Programme for the EU climate and energy policy studies (since 2015).

Contents

**Preface VII**

Guangrong Li

**and Ores 23**

Ramos Ribeiro

Verdeja

and Shukla Acharjee

**Section 2 Agglomeration and Processing 39**

Chapter 3 **Iron Ore Pelletizing Process: An Overview 41**

Chapter 4 **Iron Ore Agglomeration Technologies 61**

Chapter 5 **Calcination and Pelletizing of Siderite Ore 81**

Aydogmus and Aysegul Yucel

**Section 1 Genesis, Properties and Mining 1**

Chapter 1 **The Chinese Iron Ore Deposits and Ore Production 3**

Chapter 2 **Genesis, Uses and Environment Implications of Iron Oxides**

Davidson E. Egirani, Mohd T. Latif, Nanfe R. Poyi, Napoleon Wessey

Sandra Lúcia de Moraes, José Renato Baptista de Lima and Tiago

Daniel Fernández-González, Juan Piñuela-Noval and Luis Felipe

Mehmet Celikdemir, Musa Sarikaya, Tolga Depci, Ramazan

Chapter 6 **Mechanism and Prevention of Agglomeration/Defluidization during Fluidized-Bed Reduction of Iron Ore 105** Yiwei Zhong, Jintao Gao, Zhancheng Guo and Zhi Wang

Chapter 7 **The eXtended Discrete Element Method (XDEM): An Advanced**

Bernhard Peters, Maryam Baniasadi and Mehdi Baniasadi

**Approach to Model Blast Furnace 125**
