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1. Principles:
   • Experimental techniques: existing and new developments
   • Reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, minor element behavior
   • Chemical and transport properties of slags, metals, fluxes, gases, etc.
   • Process modeling and simulation (computational fluid dynamic modeling, etc.)
   • Refractory materials, degradation, control and optimization
   • Recycling, waste treatment, soil remediation and biotechnologies
2. Technologies:
   • New, Improved and Existing Technologies
   • Raw Materials Processing: Coke, Coal, Comminution, Magnetic Separation, Froth Flotation
   • Ironmaking: Blast Furnace, Charcoal Blast Fuirnace, Direct Reduction, Direct Smelting
   • Steelmaking: Basic Oxygen Furnaces, Electric Arc Furnaces, Contaminant Removal
   • Environmental: Carbon Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Nitrogen Oxides, Mercury, Volatile Organics
   • Chemical and metallurgical process reactors
   • Control operations and new designs
   • Products quality and cleanness (metals, steels, etc.)
3. Industrial Practice:
   • Plant and furnace operations
   • Process parameters in iron and steel making reactors
   • Feed preparation processes, equipment
   • Gas handling processes and equipment
   • Dusts and fugitive emissions
   • New minimills and expansion/capital projects
   • Predicted future of iron and steel operations
   • Process control, optimization and automation
   • Integrated production vs. minimill production