Nptel: Steel Making - Web Course

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Steel Making - Web course

COURSE OUTLINE

Types of steel; History of modern steelmaking; Status of steelmaking in India


and world Steel production and consumption, Steelmaking fundamentals:

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Solution thermodynamics; Role of slag in steelmaking, properties of slag;

Steelmaking reactions such as oxidation of carbon, silicon, manganese, iron,


phosphorous and chromium, Numerical problems; Role of refractory, Physico- http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
chemical properties of refractory, Emerging trends in refractory;

Steelmaking practice; Basic oxygen steelmaking; Electric Steelmaking;


Developments in steelmaking practice;Principles and practices of deoxidation Metallurgy and
and degassing and emerging ladle metallurgy processes;
Material Science
Clean steel; Solidification and Casting processes; Ingot and continuous
castingFinal finishing operations like heat treatment and deformation
processing;

Modelling of steelmaking; Future of steelmaking in India. Coordinators:


COURSE DETAIL Prof. Satish Ch. Koria
Department of Materials and
Metallurgical EngineeringIIT Kanpur
Module. Lectures
No

1 Steelmaking Fundamentals

1. Types of steels,, History of modern steelmaking and Indian


scenario

2. Steelmaking Fundamentals: Solution thermodynamics

3. Steelmaking Fundamentals: Role of slag in steelmaking

4. Physico-chemical properties of slag

5. Oxidation reactions: Iron and silicon

6. Decarburization and Manganese oxidation

7. Dephosphorization reaction

8. Oxidation and reduction of chromium

9. Refractory in steelmaking

10. Modern Trends in refractory

2 Modern Steelmaking Practice

11. Introduction to practices, pretreatment of hot metal, Basic


Oxygen furnace: Design and Operation

12. Fundamentals of Converter steelmaking technology

13. Feed materials and practice, Combined blown steelmaking

14. Modern trends in BOF Technology

15. Steelmaking in electric arc furnace; design and operation

16. Development in Electric Furnace steelmaking


17. DRI in electric steelmaking

18. Alloy Steelmaking

19. Novel steelmaking technologies: CONARC and EOF

20. Process control and automation

3 Ladle Metallurgy

21. Evolution of ladle treatments and requirements

22. Synthetic slag practice

23. Principles of deoxidation

24. Deoxidation practice

25. Principles of degassing

26. Degassing technologies

27. Clean steel : Impact of inclusions on steel properties

28. Sources of inclusions in steel and their control

29. Inclusion engineering

30. Numerical problems and exercises

4 Solidification and casting and finishing operations

31. Principles of solidification of steel

32. Ingot casting

33. Continuous casting

34. Developments in Continuous casting technology

35. Final finishing operation: Surface treatments

36. Final finishing operation: Heat treatment

37. Final finishing operation: Deformation processing

38. Modelling of steelmaking processes

39. Few case studies and discussions

40. Future of steelmaking India

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