1. Countercurrent feedstock and gas in the blast furnace, gas flow patterns of a granular layer, the heat exchange in the blast furnace.
2. Thermodynamics and kinetics of processes and oxidative processes in the areas of blast furnace, the theoretical combustion temperature and composition hearth gas, spare fuel injection.
3. Reduction of iron oxide with carbon, direct and indirect reduction, the share of direct influence on the reduction of specific consumption of carbon
4. The reduction of iron oxide by hydrogen reduction of other elements.
5. The blast furnace raw materials and their preparation: sintering, pelletizing, briquetting.
6. Trends in coke function and coke quality indexes.
7. Burden profile and materials distribution control system: the blast furnace profile and movement of material and gases.
8. Blast furnace slags.
9. Removal of sulphur, carburization of pig iron.
10. Challenges of the blast furmace ironmaking: factors govering blast furnace productivity, factors govering coke rate.
11. Chemical equilibrium. Equilibrium constant and ways of its expressing.
12. Thermodynamic activity of a component in solution. Methods of expressing the activity of a component in solution. Calculation of activity coefficients in multicomponent systems.
13. Molten steel slags - molecular theory of slags. Ionic theory of slags.
14. Affinity of elements - especially to oxygen. Nernst's partition law. Partitioning of oxygen between slag and metal.
15. Reactions involved in the production and refining of steel.
16. Dephosphorylation of steel. Desulphurisation of steel.
17. Solubility of gases in metals; dependence on gas partial pressure and temperature.
18. Hydrogen in iron and steel. Nitrogen in iron and steel. Oxygen in iron and steel.
19. Carbon reaction and its importance in the production and refining of steel. Effect of heat and pressure on the course of the carbon reaction.
20. Vacuum carbon deoxidation of steel. Precipitation deoxidation of steel. Diffusion deoxidation and deoxidation of steel by synthetic slags.
21. Inclusions in steel. Nucleation of inclusions and modification of inclusions.
2. Thermodynamics and kinetics of processes and oxidative processes in the areas of blast furnace, the theoretical combustion temperature and composition hearth gas, spare fuel injection.
3. Reduction of iron oxide with carbon, direct and indirect reduction, the share of direct influence on the reduction of specific consumption of carbon
4. The reduction of iron oxide by hydrogen reduction of other elements.
5. The blast furnace raw materials and their preparation: sintering, pelletizing, briquetting.
6. Trends in coke function and coke quality indexes.
7. Burden profile and materials distribution control system: the blast furnace profile and movement of material and gases.
8. Blast furnace slags.
9. Removal of sulphur, carburization of pig iron.
10. Challenges of the blast furmace ironmaking: factors govering blast furnace productivity, factors govering coke rate.
11. Chemical equilibrium. Equilibrium constant and ways of its expressing.
12. Thermodynamic activity of a component in solution. Methods of expressing the activity of a component in solution. Calculation of activity coefficients in multicomponent systems.
13. Molten steel slags - molecular theory of slags. Ionic theory of slags.
14. Affinity of elements - especially to oxygen. Nernst's partition law. Partitioning of oxygen between slag and metal.
15. Reactions involved in the production and refining of steel.
16. Dephosphorylation of steel. Desulphurisation of steel.
17. Solubility of gases in metals; dependence on gas partial pressure and temperature.
18. Hydrogen in iron and steel. Nitrogen in iron and steel. Oxygen in iron and steel.
19. Carbon reaction and its importance in the production and refining of steel. Effect of heat and pressure on the course of the carbon reaction.
20. Vacuum carbon deoxidation of steel. Precipitation deoxidation of steel. Diffusion deoxidation and deoxidation of steel by synthetic slags.
21. Inclusions in steel. Nucleation of inclusions and modification of inclusions.