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General comment ecoQuery: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.10/cutoff/dataset/20225/documentation
The following excerpts have been taken from the report by Indian Minerals Yearbook 2015 - ;;"India is an important producer of pig iron. Post-liberalisation, with setting up of several units in the Private Sector, not only imports have drastically reduced but also India has turned out to be a net exporter of pig iron. ;;The Private Sector accounted for 91% of total production for sale of pig iron in the country in 2014-15. The production for sale of pig iron has increased from 1.6 million tonnes in April 1991- March 1992 to; 9.69 million tonnes in; April 2014-March 2015. The production of hot metal for the year April 2015- March 2016 was 58,703,000 tonnes. ;Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 3.5–4.5%, along with silica and other constituents of dross, which makes it very brittle, and not useful directly as a material except for limited applications. Pig iron is made by smelting iron ore into a transportable ingot of impure high carbon-content iron in a blast furnace as an ingredient for further processing steps." ;;References: Indian Minerals;Yearbook 2015
This dataset contains information for pig iron production in a Blast Furnance, intermediate process in steel production. This activity starts when raw material are delivered to the blast furnace.
This activity ends at the exit of the blast furnace process. |
