{"id":12798,"date":"2023-07-05T09:06:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T03:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12798"},"modified":"2025-04-01T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T16:19:07","slug":"metallurgical-coke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/metallurgical-coke\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallurgical Coke"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Metallurgical Coke:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a carbonaceous material produced by <strong>heating bituminous coal in the absence of air.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is produced by heating coal in coke ovens at high temperatures (around 1,000 to 1,200 degrees Celsius).<\/li>\n<li>It is used as a fuel and reducing agent in the <strong>production of iron and steel.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Properties<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has an <strong>open, porous structure<\/strong> and may appear glassy in some varieties.<\/li>\n<li>It has also a low volatile content or rather low waste product content due to the heat treatment process received.<\/li>\n<li>It has a high <strong>carbon content, low ash content, and high strength.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its porous structure allows for good gas flow and provides structural support in the blast furnace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>However, the \u201cash\u201d constituents, that were part of the original bituminous coal feedstock, remain intact in the finished product.<\/li>\n<li>Met Coke is available in a wide range of sizes; from fine powder (30 mm) to basketball-sized lumps (20 cm).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Bituminous coal?<\/h3>\n<p>Bituminous coal is a type of coal that falls in the middle of the coal rank spectrum in terms of carbon content and energy value. It is a dense, black or dark-brown coal that is widely used as a fuel for electricity generation, industrial processes, and heating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india-news\/india-starts-safeguard-probe-against-sudden-sharp-jump-in-met-coke-imports-123070300486_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India starts safeguard probe against sudden, sharp jump in met coke imports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metallurgical coke is a carbonaceous material produced by heating bituminous coal in the absence of air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}