2020 Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Department of Materials Science and Engineering Graduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
Ironmaking process for sustainable society
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Koji Saito
- Class Format
- Lecture (Zoom)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive (Zoom)
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- MAT.M429
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course focuses on the current issues on ironmaking process for the sustainable society. This course could give the students taking this course an opportunity to consider how to introduce innovative technologies such as sensing and simulation to high-temperature process so as to improve the energy efficiency, and how to develop the environmental friendly process. In this course, the general outline of current ironmaking process will be explained at first. Particularly, the way to mine, concentrate and transport iron ores as well as coals, which are both indispensable resources for ironmaking, will be detailed along with the method for evaluating the resource quality and their world-wide trends. Then, the current trend of research and development, for example, IoT and AI on ironmaking process, will be explained. Finally, various challenges for CO2 emission reduction will be explained, and the future issues with respect to iron and steelmaking process will be discussed.
Course description and aims
A target of this course is to understand what kinds of effort are being carried out by steelmaking companies on the research and development of ironmaking process in order to attain the sustainable society. Based on this understating, the future targets for CO2 emission reduction will also be discussed, which is the other important target of this course.
Keywords
coke, sintering, blast furnace, iron ore, coal, resource trend, sensing, simulation, IoT, CO2 emission reduction, blue carbon, environmental friendly process
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
The lectures are given using power point which shows the related photos and data.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction of ironmaking process | To understand ironmaking process which is composed of coking, sintering and blast furnace iron making |
| Class 2 | Resource trends of iron ore and coals | To study how to mine, concentrate and transport iron ore and coal, and how to evaluate the resource quality |
| Class 3 | Current trends of research and development on ironmaking process | To know the current trends of research and development of ironmaking such as sensing and simulation |
| Class 4 | Future issures in terms of environmental friendly technologies of ironmaking process | To understand the present efforts done by steelmaking companies and to discuss the future issues for CO2 emission reduction |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
Materials relevent to the lecture are provided in the course.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Materials relevent to the lecture are provided in the course.
Evaluation methods and criteria
To attend the course and to submit the report
Related courses
- MAT.M428 ： Properties and manufacturing process for automotive sheet steels
- MAT.M302 ： Physical Chemistry in Metals
- MAT.M207 ： Phase Diagram and Stability in Metals
- MAT.A204 ： Thermodynamics of Materials
- MAT.M203 ： Chemical Reaction Dynamics(M)
Prerequisites
Students must have successfully completed "Physical Chemistry in Metals (MAT.M302)", or have equivalent knowledge.