International Iron and Steel Institute, 2004 - 504 p.The international Iron and Steel institute (HSI) and its Committee on Technology (TECHCO) present this HSI Study on Clean Steel - State of the Art and Process Technology in Clean Steelmaking. Clean Steel was initiated to define a milestone in current developments and applications relating to the cleanness of steels with particular emphasis on oxides. This issue is of great interest to the steel industry and its customers as well as universities and research institutions all over the world.
The special merit of this report is the duality of literature survey and best industrial practice in one report. The reader is offered a comprehensive source for information on the current best practices in the industry and an overview about the current state in research and development as documented in the literature and supplemented by current research results from the participating authors' companies. In this report information can be found in a readily available manner in condensed and comprehensive form on all relevant aspects of clean steels. Further, this information was analysed and assessed by international experts, resulting in a truly authoritative reference. HSI Member Companies contributed both directly in the IISI Working Group on Clean Steel and through contribution of data and information. These inputs make this study particularly valuable, too. It offers a deep insight into the current state of the international steel industry and its products - modem steels. Steels are modern materials, produced by up-to-date processes to deliver tomorrow's property demands today. Clean steels are essential in many of the demanding applications: hence although IISI is here presenting a detailed and thorough analysis, there are still important developments underway. This study is an important milestone, but process metallurgy is definitely still developing, leading the way for even better steel properties,
