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Energy, Environment & Ecology
An Assessment of Natural Gas Utilisation in
Primary Steel Plants of India: Current Status
and Future Outlook
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Sagnik Chowdhury , Parimal Mandal , Pankaj Bhagat and P. K. Sen *
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Abstract 1. INTRODUCTION
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