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lag is a by-product generated during manufacturing of pig iron and steel. It is produced by action of various fluxes upon gangue materials within the iron ore during the process of pig iron making in blast furnace and steel manufacturing in steel melting shop. Primarily, the slag consists of calcium, magnesium, manganese and aluminium silicates in various combinations.
The cooling process of slag is responsible mainly for generating different types of slags required for various end-use consumers. Although, the chemical composition of slag may remain unchanged, physical properties vary widely with the changing process of cooling.
In an integrated steel plant, 2 to 4 tonnes of wastes (including solid, liquid and gas) are generated for every tonne of steel produced.
A c c o r d i n g l y, t o d a y t h e e m p h a s i s i s o n t h e avoidance of waste generation, recycling and reuse of waste, and minimising the adverse impact of disposal on the environment. Among all the solid/liquid wastes, slags generated at iron making and steel making units are created in the largest quantities. With increasing capacities, disposal of large quantities of slag becomes a big environmental concern and a critical issue for steel makers. Over the last few years, with a better understanding of slags, its functions and improvements in process technologies have led to a significant reduction in the volume of slag generated. At the same time, the re-use of iron and steel making slags has also been expanded, and has led to a significant reduction in the environmental impact of these by-products.
However, slag generation remains inevitable and emphasis on its recycling remains the greatest concern. feed containing 60 to 65% iron, blast furnace
(BF) slag production ranges from about 300 to
540 kg per tonne of pig or crude iron produced.
Lower grade ores yield much higher slag fractions, sometimes as high as one tonne of slag per tonne of pig iron produced. Steel slag output is approximately 20% by mass of the crude steel output.
As per the Report of the Working Group on
C e m e n t I n d u s t r y f o r t h e 1 2 th P l a n , a r o u n d
10 million tonnes BF slag is currently generated in the country from iron & steel industry.
The information regarding plantwise capacity of iron and steel slag in the country is given in Table - 1.
Table – 1 : Plantwise Capacity of Iron and Steel
Slag in the Country
Steel Plant

Bhilai Steel Plant, Durg, Chhattisgarh

2675

Bokaro Steel Plant, Bokaro, Jharkhand

5000

Rourkela Steel Plant, Rourkela, Odisha

600

Durgapur Steel Plant, Durgapur,
West Bengal

NA

IISCO Steel Plant, Burnpur, West Bengal

400

Visvesvaraya Iron & Steel Plant,
Bhadravati, Karnataka

The slag produced at blast furnace during pig iron manufacturing is called blast furnace slag.
The slag produced at steel melting shop is known as steel slag. Slag output obtained during pig iron and steel production is variable and depends mainly on composition of raw materials and type of furnace. Typically, for ore
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Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd,
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

1440

IDCOL Kalinga Iron Works Ltd,
Barbil, Odisha

53

JSW Steel Ltd, Bellary, Karnataka

PRODUCTION

Capacity for granulation ('000 tpy)

Tata Steel Ltd, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
Visa Steel Ltd, Kalinganagar, Odisha
Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd
Kalinganagar, Odisha
Sona Alloys Pvt. Ltd,
Satara, Maharashtra

NA
2100
175
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Blast Furnace Slag
At blast furnace, the slag floating over molten pig iron (hot metal) is flushed out in slag pot and then sent to slag granulating plant or to cooling pits.
Depending upon the cooling process, three types of slags are generated; namely, air-cooled slag, granulated slag and expanded slag.
Air-cooled slag is produced by allowing the molten slag to cool under atmospheric conditions in a pit. Under slow cooling conditions, escaping gases leave behind porous and low-density aggregates with special physical properties, making it suitable for many applications. When formed under controlled cooling, the slag tends to be hard and dense, making it especially suitable for use in road base and similar applications in construction.
Granulated slag is produced by quenching the molten slag by means of high-pressure water jets.
Quenching prevents crystallisation, thus resulting in granular, glassy aggregates. This slag is crushed, pulverised and screened for use in various applications, particularly in cement production because of its pozzolanic characteristics.
Steel plants utilise cold slag for internal consumption and also for outside sale. The slag after cooling is crushed and used as road metal and railway ballast. Granulated slag produced in steel plants is also sold outside to cement plants.
Expanded slag is formed through controlled cooling of molten slag in water or water with combination of steam and compressed air. Formation of steam and other gases enhances the porosity and vesicular nature of slag, resulting in light weight aggregate suitable for use in concrete. However, expanded slag is not produced at any domestic iron and steel plant.
A fourth product made from blast furnace slag is mineral wool/slag wool. Cooled slag for this purpose is melted and poured through an air stream or a jet of dried stream of other gases to produce a spray of molten droplets or the same may be formed by passing the melt through a perforated or fast-spinning disc. The droplets elongate to long fibres, which are collected mechanically and layered. The material has excellent thermal insulation properties.
The five different slags generated at various points of the steel making process are described below:
HMT Slag: This slag is primarily the slag generated after de-siiconisation or de-phosphorisation treatment.
It has a high content of silica and lime. Sometimes it also contains BF slag.

HMDS Slag: This is the raked slag at the desulfurisation station. These slags are poorly mixed composites of spilled BF slag, spent and/or unreacted de-sulfurisation agents, lime fines and trapped droplet of hot metal and raked iron.
LD Slag: These slags are a well mixed aggregate of
FeO, lime, silica and MgO generated at the LD converter.
They are in the form of di-calcium and tri-calcium silicates. These slags also contain free lime and metal, which creates problems due to expansion charcteristics.
Steel Slag: These slags vary in composition with respect to the varied treatment. The common steel slags are fused calcium aluminates with less than 2% (FeO +
MnO). These readily crumble to dust due to allotropic phase transformation at lower temperatures and are difficult to manage.
SGP Slag: LD slag is subjected to granulation through a quenching technology adopted at JSW, which houses the first of its kind in India. Due to sudden quenching, of the molten slag, contraction of metal and slag occurs and result in good seperation of metal and slag. Adequate granulation takes place and of leads to good stability of the final slag. Process can be described as an accelerated ageing process that reduces the free lime content. Because of rapid cooling it generates more glassy structure than the BOF slag.
Removal of free lime also confirms its volumetric stability. Steel Slag
BOF slag, commonly known as steel slag is another waste from iron & steel industry. It has shown potential for use as a raw mix component up to 10% in the manufacture of cement clinker. Steel slag can also replace granulated blast furnace slag up to 10% in the manufacture of Portland Slag Cement. Steel slags are produced at steel melting shop during steel manufacturing. To produce steel, removal of excess silicon and carbon from iron is achieved through oxidation by adding limestone and coke. The steel slag contains higher amount of iron and its physical characteristics are similar to air-cooled iron slag. The
LD slag is cooled, crushed and screened. The fines are utilised in sinter making and lumps are charged in the blast furnace.
The iron content is the major basic difference between BF slag and steel slag. In BF slag, FeO is around 0.5%, whereas, in case of steel slag, total iron content varies from 16 to 23%.
The chemical analysis of granulated BF slag and steel slag generated in steel plants are given in
Table - 2.

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USES
Different types of slags find different uses in the industry. The air-cooled BF slag is crushed, screened and used mainly as road metal and bases, asphalt paving, railway ballast, landfills and concrete aggregate.
The expanded or foamed slag binds well with cement and is used mainly as aggregate for light weight concrete. However, it is not produced by domestic steel plants. Granulated BF slag is used as a pozzolanic material for producing portland slag cement. It is also

used for soil conditioning. BF slag is used in making mineral wool for insulation purposes.
Steel slag has found use as a barrier material remedy for waste sites where heavy metals tend to leach into the surrounding environment. Steel slag forces the heavy metals to drop out of solution in water run off because of its high oxide mineral content. Steel slag has been used successfully to treat acidic water discharges from abandoned mines.

Table – 2 : Chemical Composition of Slag generated in Steel Plants
Chemical composition (%)
Name of plant

Physical properties Slag
SiO2

Al2O3

CaO

MgO

MnO

FeO

S

Basicity
(CaO/SiO2)

Bhilai Steel Plant,
Durg, Chhattisgarh

BF
Steel

34.52
14.20

20.66
1.40

32.43
42.90

10.09
9.59

0.23
1.69

0.57
18.20

0.77
1.70







Bokaro Steel Plant,
Bokaro, Jharkhand

BF

35.75

22.08

30.00

8.46

0.07

0.25

0.88



Steel

16.00 to 19.00

1.07 to 1.17

45.00 to 53.00

6.00 to 11.00

0.38

18.00 to 25.00









Size : 0.6 mm to
3.2 mm
Size : 0-5 mm
& 10-40 mm


Rourkela Steel Plant,
Rourkela, Odisha

BF

33.15

22.33

30.78

10.78

0.18

0.51

0.52





Durgapur Steel Plant,
Durgapur, West Bengal

BF

33.02 to 33.23

21.75 to 22.03

32.36 to 32.55

9.08 to 9.16



0.43



Size : 3 mm







0.97 to 0.98

Steel

17.23

1.15

50.24

7.04

2.46

17.25



2.92



BF

30.40 to 35.60

21.30 to 26.40

29.83 to 35.13

7.00 to 9.00

1.00
(max)

0.60
(max)

0.90
(max)



Size : 1 to 5 mm Lumps

Steel

15.00

2.00

45.00

8.00

10.00

20.00





-

IISCO Steel Plant
Burnpur,
West Bengal

BF

32.60

23.30

33.70

7.60











Rashtriya Ispat Nigam
Ltd, Visakhapatnam,
Andhra Pradesh

BF

35.33

16.60

36.89

8.48

0.12

0.51





Size : -3 mm

Steel

17.69

1.07

50.70

10.31

1.05

16.50

1.40



Size : +10 mm to (-)60 mm

IDCOL, Kalinga Iron
Works Ltd, Barbil,
Odisha

BF

33.00 to 34.00

24.00 to 25.00

29.00 to 30.00

8.00 to 9.00

0.50 to 0.60

0.70 to 0.80

1.00



Size : 0 to
6 mm

Tata Steel Ltd,
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand

BF

34.5

20.8

34.3

7.3

0.052

0.6

-



Steel

12.65

1.16

46.23

1.76

0.45

25.06

0.33



-100 mesh to + 1 mm
0 mm to
+ 300 mm

JSW Steel Ltd,
Bellary, Karnataka

BF

35.20

19.00

34.90

8.76

0.14

(Fe)
0.039







Visa Steel Ltd,
Kalinganagar, Odisha

BF

33.8

15.39

35.38

10.25

0.64

0.74

0.92



Size : 0-5 mm
& 10-40 mm

Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd, BF
Kalinganagar, Odisha

32.62

32.62

33.25

9.91

0.40

0.55

0.62



Visvesvaraya Iron &
Steel Plant, Bhadravati,
Karnataka

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Slags are useful alternative raw material for clinker production and such use can reduce a cement plant's fuel consumption and overall emission of carbon dioxide per tonne of cement.The granulated slag obtained from various steel plants is dried in slag dryer. The clinker is ground in ball mill with 40-50% dry slag and 6% gypsum. The resultant product is portland slag cement.
Portland blast furnace slag cement contains up to 60% ground granulated slag from steel production processes. Slag cement has low heat of hydration, low alkali aggregate reaction, high resistance to chlorides and sulphate and it can substitute the use of 43 and 53 grades of ordinary Portland Cement. For other consuming sectors like road making, landfilling and ballasting, the cooled slag is crushed by machines or broken manually by hammers into smaller pieces and supplied to the various end-use consumers.

CONSUMPTION
The BF slag in India is used mainly in the cement manufacture and in other unorganised work, such as, landfills and railway ballast. A small quantity is also used by the glass industry for making slag wool fibres.
Cement plants in the country producing slag cement require BF slag in granulated forms. The chemical analysis of granulated slag consumed during the manufacture of slag cement is given in Table-3.

PRICES
The prices of BF slag vary from plant to plant. As per the information available with IBM, the price of BF slag, during 2012-13, varied from ` 350 to ` 974 per tonne. Depending upon the distance between cement plants and the steel plants, much variation is observed in prices of granulated slag. The prices of granulated slag at cement factories in 2012-13 are given in
Table-4. Consumption of slag/granulated slag in cement production for 2011-12 and 2012-13 are given in
Table-5.

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Increased utilisation of granulated slag benefits the portland cement producers. Producers can enhance the production capacity without additional greenhouse gas emissions like carbon dioxide.
A new granulator has been developed to cut the energy cost for granulation. This granulator consists of a variable speed rotating cup atomizer to break up the molten slag by centrifugal force and distribute it within a water-cooled cylindrical chamber.

The process cools the molten slag rapidly enough to create small granules, thus minimising the need for additional crushing and grinding. Moreover, the new system offers the possibility of considerable energy recycling in the form of hot water or heated air.
Texas Industries Inc. at Dallas, U.S. had developed a process called Chem Star for cement clinker production. The process involves the use of steel slag.
In this process, steel slag is fed into the rotary clinker kiln as a part of the raw material mix. Texas Industries
Inc. claimed that clinker production could be enhanced by 15% by using this process. Commonwealth Scientific
& Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) carried out investigations for value-added method for slag and proved a number of technically viable and commercially interesting applications of slag. The applications include (i) base course and top course to asphalt roads,
(ii) anti-skid surfacing for roads on accident-prone intersections, (iii) low-strength concrete for footpaths,
(iv) controlled low strength fill for backfill required for trench stabilisation and (v) concrete sub-base for rigid pavements. The ASA Association annually undertakes an
Environmental Monitoring Programme (EMP) to monitor and assess the iron & steel slag (ISS) produced, processed and sold by its members. The programme involves testing slag samples from member sites for their Total Metal (TM) concentration and wherever necessary, undertaking Toxicity Characteristic Leaching
Procedure (TCLP) on the sample required and comparing the results against jurisdictional government regulations. The National Slag Association has proved that iron
& steel slag poses no threat to human health or to the environment. Iron & steel slags have been extensively tested using certified laboratories following USEPA and
American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM) procedures. Environmental Scientists and Toxicologists completed an industrywise "Human Health and
Ecological Risk Assessment" (HHERA) which demonstrated that iron & steel slag poses no meaningful threat to human health or environment when used in a variety of residential, agriculture, industrial and construction application. Consequently, the metals in the slag matrix are not readily available for uptake by human, other animals or plants do not bioaccumulate in the foodweb and are not expected to bioconcentrate in plant tissue. Iron & steel slag may be applied safely in aquatic environment, such as rivers, lakes or streams without impacting water quality or aquatic life.

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Table – 3 : Analysis of Granulated Slag consumed for the manufacture of Slag Cement
Analysis in %
Cement plant

SiO2

ACC, Jamul,
Durg, Chhattisgarh

Fe2O3 / MgO
FeO

Al2O3/
MnO2

CaO

S/SO3

MnO

Insoluble Glass content residue & size

33.0 to 33.4

1.0 to 1.4

9.0 to 9.8

21.5 to 22.4

33.0 to 33.8

0.40 to 0.48





32.80

0.4

7.2

23.3

32.6

0.80



0.80

ACC Ltd,
Bargarh Cement Works,
Bardol, Bargarh, Odisha

33.69

0.63

9.07

19.38/
0.61

35.13

0.58



-

-

Andhra Cements Ltd,
Visakhapatnam,
Andhra Pradesh

33.32 to 35.19

0.46 to 0.50

8.86 to 9.91

17.98 to 19.35

34.75 to 35.98



0.10 to 0.16









5.5
(max)

17.0
(max)



2.0
(max)







Penna Cement Industries
Ltd, Anantapur,
Andhra Pradesh

32.00

3.50

10.0

18.50

34.92







size : 0-2 mm

Shri Durga Cement
Co. Ltd,
Hazaribagh, Jharkhand

30.00

0.80

8.00

24.00

34.00

0.80

0.2

2.4

ACC, Jhinkpani,
W. Singhbhum, Jharkhand

Century Cement,
Baikunth, Raipur,
Chhattisgarh

>79%



Table – 4 : Prices of Granulated Slag at Cement Factories, 2012-13
Cement plant

`/tonne

Source of supply

OCL India Limited,
Rajgangpur, Sundergarh,
Odisha

974

Rourkela Steel Plant, Rourkela,
Jindal Steel & Power Ltd, Raigarh, Adhunik Metaliks
Kuarmundra, Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai, etc.

Bagalkot Cement & Industries Ltd,
Bagalkot, Karnataka

533

Shree Cement Ltd,
Beawar, Rajasthan

350

Hindustan Zinc Ltd, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan

The India Cements Ltd,
Chilampur-516 310, AP

400
700

Sri Venkateswara Enterprises,Chennai.
Sri Lakshmi Enterprises, Bellary

Vijay Cements,Trichy

855
770

JSW Steel Ltd, Mettur
Shri Devi Veeramanohari Agency, Tuticorin

Vasavdatta Cement, Sedam, Karnataka

782

JSW Steel Ltd, Torangallu

Madras Cement Ltd,
Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu

550

JSW Steel Ltd, Pottaneri, Mecheri

J.K. Cement Works,
Bagalkot, Karnataka

443

JSW Cement Ltd.

J.K. Lakshmi Cement Ltd,
Sirohi, Rajasthan

460

HZL, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan

Kalyani Steel Ltd, Hospet Road, Ginizara, Koppal,
Karnataka

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Table – 5 : Consumption of Slag/Granulated Slag in Cement Production, 2011-12 & 2012-13
Cement plant

2011-12

2012-13

OCL India Limited,
Sundergarh, Odisha

1006022

1156972

Shree Cement Ltd,
Pali, Rajasthan

18493.0

123762

-

2848

250693

174449

45458

56299

The India Cement Ltd,
Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh
(Iron Slag)

-

27382

Ultra Tech Cement Ltd,
(Rawan Cement Works)
Raipur, Chattisgarh

465864

463691

J.K. Cement Works,
Bagalkot, Karnataka

36217

83190

Vijay Cements,
Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu

11359

12841

Bagallkot Cements & Industries Ltd,
Bagalkot, Karnataka

49484

34820

-

26631

M/s Madras Cement Ltd,
Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu
M/s Ultra Tech Cement Ltd,
APCW, Tadipatri,
Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh
The India Cement Ltd,
Nalgonda, andhra Pradesh

J.K. Lakshmi Cement Ltd,
Sirohi, Rajasthan

The study carried out by an independent nationally renowned chemical laboratory has demonstrated that blast furnace and steel slag do not pose any threat to human or plant life. The study further revealed that the use of slag has very positive environmental benefits.
The use of slag in cement manufacturing significantly decreases CO2 emission and reduces the energy needed to calcine limestone. The use of slag as aggregate reduces the need for virgin material and the energy use and emission produced during the mining, processing and transportation of those material.
The Working Group on Cement for 12th Plan has described potential areas for R&D in the Plan period.

Some of these which could benefit the cause of utilisation of slags in cement industry are: use of steel slag in road construction; use of non-conventional slags from different metallurgical industries in the manufacture of cement and activated slag cement and tiles/bricks/blocks from slag.

FOREIGN TRADE
Exports
Exports of slag (dross, etc.) in 2012-13 increased marginally to about 1,290 thousand tonnes by 5% from
1,230 thousand tonnes in the previous year. Exports were mainly to China (94%) and Philippines (5%)
(Table - 6).
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Imports

Table – 6 : Exports of Slag (Dross etc. from
Iron & Steel excl. granulated)
(By Countries)
2011-12

The imports of slag decreased sharply to 5,403 tonnes in 2012-13 from 17,251 tonnes in the previous year. Imports were almost mainly from Japan (Table - 7).

2012-13

Country
Qty
(t)
All Countries 1230450
China
1129614
Philippines
39400
Bhutan
955
Nepal
1563
Congo P. Rep.
Maldives
Kuwait
USA
Japan
58510
Sri Lanka
Other countries
408

Value
(`'000)

Qty
(t)

Value
(`'000)

7550373
6902679
246141
6495
9174
383397
2487

1289898
1211411
70054
5908
2427
27
50
11
10
++
++
++

7969044
7447991
469303
38200
13079
153
141
87
57
21
11
1

FUTURE OUTLOOK
Slag is used as substitute for clinker. This slag otherwise would have been a waste and used as a filler material. Slag, if used properly, will conserve valuable limestone deposits required for production of cement.
Portland Slag Cement (PSC) has advantages of better performance, durability and optimal production cost, besides being eco-friendly. Blended cements like
PSC have multiple benefits of tangible and intangible dimensions. India is having huge slag production capacity of 10 million tonnes per annum at existing

Table – 7 : Imports of Slag (Dross etc. from
Iron & Steel excl. granulated)
(By Countries)
2011-12

2012-13

Country
Qty
(t)
All Countries
Japan
UK
Other countries

Value
(`'000)

Qty
(t)

Value
(`'000)

17251

81577

5403

28486

9516

37418

5402

28464

-

-

1

22

7735

44159

-

-

steel plants. Indian cement industry is consuming almost the entire granulated slag produced and can consume up to 70% of the blast furnace slag generated.
There is scope for further consumption of granulated slag in order to enhance the total production of cement.
The total cement production capacity commissioned at the end of 11th Plan by 2011-12 was
331 million tpy, about 10% higher than the Plan target.
By the end of 12th Plan by 2016-17, an additional capacity of 139.7 million tpy is expected to be added. This will substantially increase the potential for use of slag in the cement manufacture.

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