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Iron Making and Steel Making

 

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Classification of furnaces; different kinds of furnaces; heat balance, energy conservation and energy audit; parts, construction and design aspects of blast furnace, ancillary equipment;  blast furnace instrumentation.  

 

Blast furnace reactions; Gruner's  theorem, carbon deposition, the partitioning of  solute elements  between the Iron and the slag; reactions in blast furnace; blast furnace slags; mass balance and heat balance

 

Blast  furnace (B/F) operations; B/F   irregularities  and   remedial   measures, B/F refractories and causes of failure, modern  trends in (B/F) technology overview of direct reduction processes, electric smelting; production of DRI (HBI/Sponge iron)

 

Review of  traditional  steel  making; physical chemistry and thermodynamics; air/O2   impurity   interaction, slag  metal interaction,   role of slags in refining ,continuous casting; foaming slag; removal of  S and  P;  de-oxidizers, alloying;

Open hearth F/C; Bessemer converters; bottom blown and top blown processes; slag practices and sequencing; LD,VD, AOD, and VOD; Ladle metallurgy;  electric  arc furnace and DRI usage; energy, environmental and quality  considerations;

 

TEXT BOOKS

 

1.       Thupkary R.H, ‘Introduction to Modern Iron Making’, Khanna Publications, Delhi, 2004

2.      Tupkary R.H., ‘Introduction to Modern Steel Making’, Khanna Publishers, 2004

 

REFERENCES

 

1.             Gupta O. P., ‘ Elements of Fuels, Furnace and Refractories’, 2nd Edition, Khanna Publishers, 1990

2.             Bashforth  G.R, ‘Manufacture of Iron and Steel’, Volume I - IV, Asia Publications, 1996