Metallurgical coke is a porous material, which is the most important material
used in a blast furnace, and one of the major uses of this kind of coke is in
metallurgy industries.
Metallurgical coke has various roles in blast furnaces like: energy supply, iron
resuscitation & creating porosity for passage of resuscitative gases.
It should be noted that, this kind of coke is also used in casting, ferroalloys and
as well as steelmaking industries by the method of electric arc furnace.