This book outlines the physical and chemical foundations of high-temperature processes for producing silicon, manganese and chromium ferroalloys, alloys of molybdenum, vanadium, titanium, alkaline earth and rare earth metals, niobium, zirconium, aluminum, boron, nickel, cobalt, phosphorus, selenium and tellurium, iron-carbon alloys by carbon, silicone and aluminothermic methods. The chapters introduce the industrial production technologies of these groups of ferroalloys, the characteristics of charge materials, and the technological parameters of the melting processes. A description of ferroalloy furnaces is given in detail. Topics such as waste recycling, fines agglomeration technologies, and environmental issues are considered.

Aitber Bizhanov graduated from Moscow Physical Technical Institute in 1979. Since 1992 he is active on recycling of metallurgical wastes. He has a Ph.D. degree in the agglomeration of natural and anthropogenic materials in metallurgy. He is the author of more than 60 publications including two books published by Springer and is owner and co-author of 15 Russian Patents in the field. Dashevskii Viktor is Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor of the National Research University "Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys" and Head of the Laboratory of the Institute of Metallurgy and Material Sciences named after A.A.Baykov, Russian Academy of Sciences. He has been awarded numerous prizes and is an specialist in physical chemistry of the metallurgical oxide smelts and on the theory and practice of the Ferroalloys electrothermal production. He is a member-correspondent of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and acting member of the New York Academy of Sciences (USA). GASIK Mikhail Ivanovic is Doctor of Technical Sciences (1969), and hold positions as Professor (1971), Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1990), Honoured Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2004), Foreign Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (2005) and honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2006). He has been awarded numerous prizes such as Prizes named after Yaroslav the Wise of the Academy of Sciences of the Higher School of Ukraine (2002) and Prizes named after Z.I. Nekrasov National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2006). His main areas of scientific and scientific-pedagogical activity are: fundamental studies of the problems of physical chemistry of high-temperature interaction processes in metal and oxide systems based on manganese, silicon, chromium, aluminum.