This volume covers various aspects of the fundamentals, synthesis, analysis, design, monitoring, and control of metals, materials, and metallurgical processes and phenomena. Topics represented include but are not limited to:• Use of artificial intelligence or big data in the control or optimization of industrial processes
• Modelling or optimization of recycle streams and scrap loops
• Measurement and control in hostile environments
• Modeling transport phenomena in materials processing and metallurgical processes involving iron, steel, nonferrous metals, and composites
• Thermodynamics, kinetics, and physical chemistry of materials processes and modelling thereof
Author(s): Samuel Wagstaff, Alexandra Anderson, Adrian S. Sabau
Series: The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 245
City: Cham
Preface
Contents
About the Editors
Part I Process Optimization
1 Modeling of Macro-scale Reaction Effects in a Secondary Lead Reverberatory Furnace
2 Effect of Wearing Impellers on Multiphase Flow and Desulfurization During KR Mechanical Stirring Process
3 Post Processing Approach to Model Microsilica Formation
4 Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Coke Breeze Combustion Under Different Oxygen Content in the Sintering Process
Part II Continuous Casting
5 Inverse Calculation of Time-Spatial Varying Mold Heat Flux During Continuous Casting from Fast Response Thermocouples
6 Quality Prediction of Hot Rolled Products and Optimization of Continuous Casting Process Parameters Based on Big Data Mining
7 Study on the Uniformity of Surface Temperature of Continuous Casting Slab Based on Solidification and Heat Transfer Simulations
8 How to Prevent Porosity Defects in Steel Casting Component
9 Fluctuant Solidification Behavior in the Centerline of Continuous Casting Billets Based on Numerical Simulation
Part III Slag and Ladle Treatment
10 Toward Meso-scale Modelling of Slag Foaming Phenomena in Pyrometallurgy
11 Simulation on the Slag Desulfurization During the LF Refining in a Gas-Blowing Ladle
12 A Modified Thermodynamic Software to Control the Composition of Inclusions During Calcium Treatment Process
Part IV New Processes and Insights
13 Reductant Formation Enthalpy in DC Ferrochrome Smelting: Merely Academic or Fundamental to Operation?
14 Measuring and Processing of Electrical Parameters in a Submerged Arc Furnace
15 Volatilization Behavior of Arsenic from a Hematite Ore During Non-isothermal Heating in Argon Atmosphere: An Overview
16 Comprehensive Recovery of Elemental Sulfur and Sulfide Minerals from Pressure Acid Leaching Residue of Zinc Sulfide Concentrate with an Integrated Flocculation Flotation-Hot Filtration Process
Part V Additive Manufacturing and Materials First Principles
17 Automatic Process Mapping for Ti64 Single Tracks in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Part VI Poster Session
18 Simulation of Ferroalloy Casting in Copper Moulds
19 Effects of Temperature and Density on Transition Slab Length During Steel Grade Transition
20 Mathematical Simulation Study on the Effect of Nozzle Side Hole Structure Parameters on the Behavior of Molten Steel in Stainless Steel Mold
Author Index
Subject Index
