LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF THE SPONGE IRON PRODUCTION PROCESS USING OPENLCA SOFTWARE: A CASE STUDY OF KHUZESTAN STEEL PLANT, IRAN

Life Cycle Assessment of the Sponge Iron Production Process Using OpenLCA Software: A Case Study of Khuzestan Steel Plant, Iran

Background: Since sponge iron is the main feed of steel furnaces for the production of crude steel, especially in electric arc furnaces, the production of quality sponge iron is one of the concerns of the steel industry.The reduction process, which is the conversion of pellets into sponge iron using reduction gases, has been used in Iran for many y

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Uprising and Regime Change in the Middle East and North Africa: Explaining the Conditions of the Arab Spring Formation and its Beginning in Tunisia and Egypt

It is safe to say that over the past decade, no region in the world as much as the Middle East and North Africa has been involved with rapid political developments, unrest and instability.The beginning of a cycle of mass protests and instability in the aftermath of the Arab Spring is just one of those cases.The main purpose of the present research

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The timing of T cell priming and cycling

The proliferation of specific lymphocytes is the central tenet of the clonal selection paradigm.Antigen recognition by T cells triggers a series of events that produces expanded clones of differentiated effector cells.TCR signaling events are detectable within seconds and minutes and are likely to continue for hours BODY WASH and days in vivo.Here,

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