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blends, and optimization of process parameters for both recovery and nonrecovery
stamp charge cokemaking. His interests expanded to the areas of combustion, coke-
making by-products, and environment protection in the same areas. He is the author
of over 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals/conferences and chapter in a
book. He also has work experiences with two other steel plants, viz., Bhushan Power
and Steel Ltd. (BPSL), Jharsuguda, (Orissa), India and Jindal Steel and Power Ltd.
(JSPL), Raigarh (C.G.), India.

Hee Kyoung (Jackie) Park was born in Kimhae, South Korea, and obtained her
Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Ulsan University in South Korea.
She worked as a die cast designer and technical sales assistant for KODIMA (Korea
Digital Manufacturing) for 2 years and then joined Pearson Coal Petrography in South
Holland, USA, as a research engineer in 2011. At the South Holland laboratory, she
provides petrography and plastometry analyses for coking coals and steam coals,
microscopic evaluations of metallurgical cokes and carbons for mining companies,
coke producers, steel producers, and other coal and coke testing laboratories in North
America, Europe, South Africa, and Asia. Since 2014, she has participated in research
presentations at AISTech (Association for Iron & Steel Technology) and has co-
authored the research performed on “encapsulites, and the suppression of internal
gas pressure in industrial metallurgical coke blends.”

Isabel Ortiz Gonz alez is a researcher at the Unit for Energy Conversion of Fuels and
Wastes of the Department of Energy at CIEMAT (Research Centre for Energy, Envi-
ronment, and Technology), Spain, where she has been working since 2008. She holds a
PhD in Analytical Chemistry by Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, 2013. Her
research expertise comprises characterization, sampling and analysis of pollutants
from thermochemical conversion of coal, biomass, and waste and gas upgrading.
She has participated in many R&D projects on a national and international level and
is author of several contributions in scientific journals, peer-reviewed conferences,
and technical reports.

Isabel Su arez Ruiz is a scientific researcher at the National Coal Institute (INCAR-
CSIC, Spain) working in the field of organic petrology. She is a geologist and got
her PhD in 1988 from the University of Oviedo (Spain) for her doctoral thesis on
Jurassic oil shales and source rocks in North Spain. She has spent extensive periods
of time carrying out research in the field of petrology and organic geochemistry on
rocks related to hydrocarbon exploration, coals, and solid residues from coal utilization
in well-known laboratories in France (Orléans) and in the United States (SIUeC,
Carbondale, Illinois) and CAER in Lexington, Kentucky. She also spent shorter
periods of time in the Mexican Institute of Petroleum (Mexico) and in the Colombian
Institute of Petroleum, ICP-Ecopetrol (Colombia) working on organic petrology
applied to conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon systems. Moreover, she
has developed multiple international and national collaborative projects. She is also
a member of scientific international committees and a member of the Coal Advisory
Group of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel Program of the EU. She is also