MT61138: Advances Iron And Steel Making
| MT61138 | |
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| Course name | Advances Iron And Steel Making |
| Offered by | Metallurgical & Materials Engineering |
| Credits | 4 |
| L-T-P | 3-1-0 |
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| Semester | Spring |
Syllabus
Syllabus mentioned in ERP
Blast furnace as a chemical reactor and its thermodynamic efficiency. Kinetics of iron oxide reduction and carbon gasification. Dissection of quenched blast furnace and its study in detail, flow of gas, liquid and solid in the various parts of the blast furnace, physico-chemical and modelling study of the cohesive zone, dropping zone, raceway zone and hearth zone, special attention on silicon transfer mechanism to hot metal, slagless steelmaking. Reactor design based on rate based models for iron making. Alternative iron making processes and their energy requirements. Unit process in primary steel making. Thermodynamics and kinetics of steel making reactions, Theoretical analysis of refining reactions. Gas injection in steel making vessels. Theory of steel making slags. Unit processes in secondary steel making and its application to production of special and alloy steel. Fundamental and practical aspects of Injection Metallurgy. Advanced features of Continuous Casting. Application of modeling and simulation in steel making.