Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) is a prime quality feedstock of today's Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steelmaking. Driven by the increasing price of steel scrap and the undesired contaminants of scrap, the consumption of DRI as a source of virgin iron in EAFs has been steadily increasing . In recent years, charging hot DRI to the EAF in order to reduce the energy intensity of the process has been practiced successfully. Furthermore, a novel steelmaking process has been introduced that promises continuous melting and refining of steel by using DRI, preferably at high temperature, as the main feed. Although the energy saving advantage of charging hot DRI, compared to the conventional use of cold-DRI is well established, little is known about the effect of DRI temperature on its melting and decarburization behaviour. The present work examines the dependence of DRI decarburization kinetics on the DRI discharge temperatures up to 600 °C.
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