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Advanced Materials
for a Sustainable
World
Slag is a co-product of
the iron and steelmaking
process. After
conditioning, screening,
crushing and washing,
the processed material
is an artificial aggregate
possessing many
advantages over natural
aggregates.
It is the first choice for a number of In addition, certain slag types have
construction applications because chemical properties that make them
of its physical and mechanical effective filtering media or fertilising
properties, and also because whole agents.
life costs are minimised owing to its
durability. Lastly, there are significant
environmental advantages in using
Processed slag can be recycled back an artificial material such as slag to
into steelmaking as a metallurgical mitigate the environmental impact of
additive, using a patented method. steelmaking.
Norway
Poland
Canada
UK Czech Republic
Netherlands Romania
Portugal
USA
China
Indonesia
Brazil
Australia
South Africa
Chile
New Zealand
Harsco sells 10 million tonnes annually of steel aggregates in 18 countries, thereby reducing
The Sustainable Solution landfilling of slag and quarrying of natural aggregates
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Global Knowledge,
Local Solutions
Developing Markets
and Delivering
Solutions
Our approach is to
develop aggregate
solutions entirely adapted
to local market conditions.
This reflects:
National or State Regulations specifying physical and mechanical properties
of materials to be used
Additional Product requirements: expected service life, user preferences etc.
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Quality
Control
Quality Control
Rigorous quality control
procedures are followed
from raw material to final
product.
Segregation/Cooling/Conditioning
of source materials
Testing/Crushing/Screening/
Washing
Optional Further processing (e.g.
hot mix asphalt). Computerised mixing and weighing of temperature-controlled slag material for asphalt production
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Research &
Development
Asphalt
Sheffield Halam University (UK):
collaboration on research into
skid resistance, deformation, and
thin surfacing materials
Ministry of Communication
– Roads Research (Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia): Slag aggregate in asphalt
mixes.
Filter Media
Phospho Reduc Engineering Inc New Zealand Steel (BlueScope
(Canada): collaboration on Steel): Research and
research into the use of EAF steel Development into sustainable
slag for phosphorus reduction and applications for melter slag in the
metals reduction in industrial and treatment of storm water drainage
agricultural effluent and waste water.
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Road
Construction
Permanent deformation is a major stripping of the bituminous binder this particular factor. Steel slag not
cause of road failure around the due to moisture ingress, causing only has excellent resistance to
world and steel slag asphalt resists the asphalt material to deteriorate. polishing but is able to regenerate its
this failure mechanism by forming In addition to extending the life of surface roughness over time, thereby
strong interlocking aggregate dense asphalts, steel slag is ideal for maintaining its properties throughout
structures within the asphalt. the manufacture of porous asphalts the whole life of the road surfacing.
without the need for expensive anti-
Steel Slag is basic in nature and stripping additives.
has a strong affinity to bitumen,
ensuring strong adhesion to Skid resistance is paramount and
the binder. In contrast, natural highway authorities worldwide are
aggregates may suffer from becoming increasingly focused on
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The Interstate 74 highway (USA), laid with
material using EAF slag aggregate
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Road
Construction
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Steel slag used as road base, Canada
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Cement
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Concrete
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Railway
Ballast
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Embankment
Ballast
Embankments need to be
stable and durable.
Its high density, integral aggregate
strength and cubical shape makes
slag a material of choice for the civil
engineer.
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Stone
Columns
Essential properties of
construction materials
used in ground
stabilisation:
Resistance to abrasion
Low Water absorption
Grain hardness
Chemical stability.
Site in Saudi Arabia where slag was used for ground stabilisation
The material used for ground Additional benefits of EAF slag are:
stabilisation has to undergo leaching
tests to prevent groundwater
Aggregate shape
contamination, so the chemical Angle of internal friction.
stability of slag makes it especially
appropriate for this use.
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How do Stone Columns
work?
Certain ground conditions cannot
support standard foundations for
construction of buildings. The
ground requires stabilisation in
order to support the foundations.
Vibro-flotation method allows slag to seep into constructed hole as digging proceeds
Site where ground stabilisation has enabled building construction to proceed in Hadeed, Saudi Arabia
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Insulation
EAF Steel Slag is valued for its high density (noise insulation) and fire-resistance properties,
which are both vital characteristics of Rockwool® products
Thermal insulation
Noise suppression
Fire resistant.
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Wall
Construction
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Metallurgical
Additives
Harsco Minerals
High Performance
Slag Solutions
Harsco Minerals’ range of Our patented engineered materials
technology utilises various slag
Performix ladle refining building additives to meet specific
products are engineered steel refining requirements. The
generation of a liquid ladle slag with
for clean steelmaking high CaO and low FeO contents
practices in high increases the absorption capacity of
both oxide inclusions and sulfur.
productivity steel shops.
These custom-designed This is necessary to achieve the
steel product specifications required
additives quickly generate for today’s applications.
a fluid ladle slag to
improve shop productivity
Benefits of synthetic slag
and final product quality. usage
Harsco Minerals is part of 1. More cost-effective than
Harsco Corporation. buying calcium aluminate
2. Acts as an absorbent liquid
sponge (sulphur and oxide
inclusions)
3. Insulates steel from
temperature loss
5. Protects refractory from
electric arcs
6. Protects refined steel from
re-oxidation.
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Desulfurizers the ladle. A more effective slag Slag products. They are chemically
deoxidation process results which engineered to rapidly form a highly
Harsco Minerals offers custom-
improves alloy recoveries, increases basic and fluid slag that will absorb
designed lime-based Desulfurizers
desulfurisation efficiency and impurities such as sulfur as well as
for efficient steel refining in
provides protection to the ladle the products of steel deoxidation.
the ladle. Our products are
slaglines. This ladle refining treatment
engineered to provide cost effective
helps create a steel product with
desulfurisation during and after These custom-designed products low inclusion levels and within
furnace tapping. This is achieved are available with specific levels specification to maximise castability,
by the immediate production of of metallic aluminum or silicon productivity and product quality.
a molten slag with an increased reductants to lower the oxidation
desulfurisation potential. The potential of the ladle slag. This
rapid fluidisation of the entire ladle decreases alloy fade and thereby
slag increases the absorption of minimises caster clogging and
sulfur and non-metallic inclusions quality downgrades. The result is
throughout each stage of ladle a cost effective and efficient ladle
refining. refining process.
These custom-designed products
are available with specified levels Calcium Aluminates
of metallic aluminum or silicon Our calcium aluminates are
to improve the efficiency of the engineered to be a cost effective
desulfurising process. This allows approach to fluorspar-free ladle slag
the specified sulfur levels to be fluxing. As many aluminum killed
reached within the time required. steel shops are restricted in the
Premelted MgO is also provided use of fluorspar, calcium aluminate
to generate rapid and ongoing consumption has increased as a
refractory protection. means of fluidising CaO in a quick
and effective manner.
Ladle Slag Deoxidizers
Our extensive line of calcium
Our aluminate products offers a wide
aluminum or range of chemistries to balance ladle
silicon-based slag chemistries while providing
Ladle Slag the basicity and fluidity required for
Deoxidizers effective steel refining in the ladle.
are designed
to quickly
Synthetic Slags
assimilate into the entire ladle slag
volume. This facilitates a complete We deliver effective ladle metallurgy
reaction with the carryover furnace treatment through our line of calcium
slag to effectively reduce the FeO aluminate, calcium silicate and
and MnO contents of the slag in calcium fluoride-based Synthetic
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Filter
Media
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Abrasive Blasting
Material
The operation in Indonesia which produces slag balls using the Ecomaister process
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Soil
Conditioner
Steel furnace ladle slag In addition to steel slag’s value as Today steel slag is being used as a
a liming agent – reducing harmful liming agent not just in farming, but
has been used as a acidic conditions by replacing much also parks, golf courses, nurseries,
liming agent for nearly needed calcium and magnesium – it greenhouses and even land
is recognized for as many as fifteen reclamation projects.
a century. It is very other trace minerals, including iron,
effective in adjusting the manganese, zinc and molybdenum.
pH balance in soil. The amount of allowable trace
minerals depends on the CCE
(Calcium Carbonate Equivalent).
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Doing Business
with Harsco
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MultiServ Group Limited
A part of Harsco Corporation