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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2021/2022

Refining and Steel Casting

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 618-2002/01
Abbreviation RaOO
Course title Refining and Steel Casting
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Metallurgy and Foundry
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Karel Michalek, CSc.

Osnova předmětu

1.Causes of Reasons of the development of methods of secondary metallurgy, its importance, dividing of methods.
2.Elements of steel, behaviour of elements during steel refining.
3.Refining of steel by the help of inert gases, effects, technologies, flotation of non-metallic inclusions by the inert gas, absorption of inclusions by the slag.
4.Gases in the steel, degassing of steel, basis, mechanism, vacuum steel refining, technological methods.
5.Steel refining by the help of synthetic slags, composition of slags, kinetics of processes.
6.Ladle furnaces, importance during steel treatment at the secondary metallurgy, dividing. Inputting of cored and Al wires into the liquid steel, importance, technology, modification of inclusions.
7.Steel casting, equipment of cast houses, characteristics of basic technologies.
8.Steel casting into ingot-moulds, top-pouring, uphill casting, steel crystallisation, structure of ingots, micro- and macro-segregation.
9.Ingots defects of killed and rimmed steel.
10.Continuous steel casting, dividing, advantages, disadvantages, construction of the CCM.
11.Secondary metallurgy, optimization of steel flowing, submerged nozzles.
12.Steel solidification in the mould, primary, secondary and tertiary cooling zone, dividing of blanks.
13.Defects of continuously cast blanks.
14.New directions at casting of blanks.

Povinná literatura

GHOSH, A.: Secondary Steelmaking - Principles and Applications. New York, 2001, 322 p.
FRUEHAN, R. J.: The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel, AISE Steel Foundation, 1998, 767 p.

Doporučená literatura

STOLTE, G.: Secondary Metallurgy - Fundamentals Processes Applications. Düsseldorf, 2002, 216 p.
YOGESHWAR, S., TOSHIHIKO, E.: Tundish Technology for Clean Steel Production, World Scientific, 2007, 313 p.