The oriented development of applied technology sciences is one of the four most important goals, which are Ecology, Economy, Sociology, and Technology of building an industrially sustainable future that depends on the achievement of 100% dependable on recycling feedstock and 100% independent renewable feeding energy.
The path of the steel stream industry has witnessed several developments and transformations that can be summarized into three generations…
The 1st generation is an integrated stream, from the upstream to downstream, where the stream begins with the ironmaking industry, in the upstream stage, and the steelmaking industry, in the midstream stage, then at the downstream, final products by Hot-Rolling, Cold-Forming, Extruding, Drawing, and Forging… the integrated stream was depended on natural sources of feedstock and energy.
The 2nd generation is a semi-integrated stream, in this generation, the concept of the independent downstream or standalone downstream, concept is established where the upstream and midstream depended on natural sources of material and energy, to produce feedstock as semi-products comply with the downstream needs, chemically, physically, and metallurgically, the Hot rolling mill, HRM, is an example of the standalone downstream.
The 3rd generation and because of the electric steelmaking era started the independent midstream or standalone midstream concept was established which is dependent on 100% recycling material as a feedstock and 100% electric energy to produce the feedstock required to feed the standalone downstream with products to comply with the needs chemically, physically, and metallurgically, the Steel Melt Shop, SMS, is an example of standalone midstream.
The 4th generation and because of the beginning of the era of endless concepts, Endless Melting, and Endless Casting and Rolling, the merging of standalone midstream SMS and standalone HRM, Merged Mini Mill , MMM, achieved which can be dependent on 100% recycling material as a feedstock and 100% renewable energy.
All the mentioned four generations serviced the Mega and Macro investments and, based on the concept the technology was created to facilitate and not to complicate, this research is submitted to serve the Micro and Nano investments.
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