Symposium "held during the TMS 2011 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Diego, California, U.S.A., February 27-March 3, 2011."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Machine generated contents note: 2nd International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing -- Energy Efficient New Metal Production Technology -- Intrinsic Hydrogen Reduction Kinetics of Magnetite Concentrate Particles Relevant to a Novel Green Ironmaking Technology / H. Sohn -- Laboratory Investigation of the Reduction of the Iron Carbonate Bearing Ore to Iron Nugget by Means of the ITmk3 Technology / V. Bastrygin -- Behavior of Coal-Based Direct Reduction Reaction of Iron Oxide Pellets by Microwave Heating / X. Guang-Bin -- Carbothermal Reduction of Titanium Concentrate at High Temperature / L. Lei -- Simulation Study on Flue Gas Circulating Sintering (FGCS) for Iron Ores / X. Fan -- Optimizations of Preparation for U3O8 by Calcination from Ammonium Durante Using Response Surface Methodology / D. Huang -- Microwave Field Attenuation Length and Half-Power Depth in Magnetic Materials / W. Bell -- Vanukov Furnace Technology: Application Experience, for Processing Different Types of Raw Materials and General Development Trends / A. Kuznetsov -- Microwave Heating and Iron and Steel Production -- Study of Coal-Based Direct Reduction of Composite Binder Magnetite Preheated Pellets / J. Li -- Microwave Dielectric Properties of Pyrolyzed Carbon / S. Xie -- Fugitive Emissions Related to Oxidation of Liquid Silicon during Ladle Refining / N. Kamfjord -- Reduction Kinetics of Iron Oxide in CaO-SiO2-Al2O3-FexO-C Mixtures / P. Masset -- Optimization of the Process Variables for Making Direct Reduced Iron by Microwave Heating Using Response Surface Methodology / H. Zhu -- Study on Nucleation and Growth Mechanism of Iron Crystal Grain in Coal-Based Shaft Furnace Direct Reduction Iron Pellets by Microwave Heating / Y. Zhang -- Investigation on a Microwave High-Temperature Air Heat Exchanger / G. Chen -- Refractories, Slag and Recycling.