Recycling of refractory bricks used in basic steelmaking: A review

Refractories are indispensable for all high temperatures processes, such as the production of metals, cement, glass and ceramics. It is estimated that up to 28 million tons of spent refractories are generated every year. Despite these significant amounts, recycling of spent refractories has received little attention due to the abundance of low cost virgin raw materials and low disposal costs of the, largely inert, materials. In the last two...