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What Have We Learnt About the Corrosion of Stainless Steel Since 1934? (Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom)

06 May 19
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Tracks: Howe Memorial Lecture

Speaker(s): Carolyn M. Hansson
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AOD Process Control: From Slide Rule to Factory Automation (Room 414)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Specialty Alloy & Foundry

Speaker(s): Allen Chan ; Hamzah Alshawarghi
Process calculations for additions and flowrates are more detailed for stainless and specialty steels than for carbon steel due to the cost and che... More...

Behavior of Carbon in a Blast Furnace and the Use of Carbon Content in Hot Metal for the Monitoring and Control of the Ironmaking Process (Room 405)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Ironmaking

Speaker(s): Michael Alter ; Robert Nightingale ; Yakov Gordon
A modern view on carbon transfer into blast furnace hot metal and empirical equations for saturated carbon content are presented. Carbon saturation... More...

Calcium Aluminate Formation: Learning a Possible Mechanism Through Size Distributions (Room 410)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Ladle & Secondary Refining/Metallurgy - Steelmaking & Casting

Speaker(s): Mauro Ferreira ; P. Chris Pistorius
Industrial and laboratory samples have shown that the calcium aluminates that form immediately after calcium treatment are much smaller than the al... More...

Crystallization Behavior Evaluations of the Mold Powder by DTA (Room 407)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Continuous Casting

Speaker(s): Daisuke Katayama ; Masanori Okada ; Yukimasa Iwamoto
In the continuous casting process, it has been known that a mold powder with a high crystallization temperature is effective in preventing surface ... More...

Customized Solutions for Dimension Control and Surface Analysis of Hot-Rolled Products Ready for Industry 4.0 (Room 308)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Long Products

Speaker(s): Mario Fabro ; Ralf Kremer ; Ulrich Svejkovsky
Market competitiveness requires steel producers to check the finished or intermediate products as soon as possible to get rapid feedback about size... More...

Development and Industrial Validation of a New Lime-Based Slag Conditioner in the BOF Process at Dillinger (Room 409)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Oxygen Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Helmut Lachmund ; José Noldin ; Katharina Kortzak ; Michael Nispel
The BOF steelmaking route accounts for the majority of steel production globally, producing sophisticated steel grades for challenging applications... More...

Digital Assistance Tools and Remote Service Solutions for Electric Arc Furnaces (Room 315)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Computer Applications

Speaker(s): Brigitte Laimer ; Richard Stadlmayr ; Thomas Reindl
Understanding electric arc furnace (EAF) plant digitalization includes the seamless interaction of equipment and smart automation with digital assi... More...

Effect of Allotriomorphic Ferrite Thickness on Advanced High-Strength Steel Toughness (Room 412)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Metallurgy - Processing, Products & Applications

Speaker(s): Bryan Webler ; Rafael Coura Giacomin
Levels of C, Mn and Si in new advanced high-strength steel grades lead to a complex evolution of microstructure during solidification and can lead ... More...

Effect of Raw Material Preparation and Goethitic Material in Pelletizing (Room 402)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Liming Lu
Different raw material preparation techniques have developed to pelletise coarse concentrates. After examining the quality of both green and fired ... More...

Fluidic Coherent Jet Injector and Multi-Directional Fluidic Burner: Operating Experience (Room 406)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Megha Jampani
Praxair Inc.’s fluidic CoJet® injector and its OPTIFIRE™ fluidic burner allow EAF operators to deflect the flame of the burner in a direction of ch... More...

Investigating Centerline Bridging in Continuous Casting During Speed Drops With ConOffline (Room 411)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Metallurgy - Steelmaking & Casting

Speaker(s): Brian Thomas ; Joseph Bentsman ; William Drennan ; Zhelin Chen
Centerline bridging occurs near final solidification at the metallurgical length of a caster, when the two solidification fronts touch, entrapping ... More...

Managing Titania-Bearing Products in Blast Furnace Ironmaking (Room 404)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Ironmaking

Speaker(s): Arthur Cheng ; Ian Cameron ; Stuart Street
Titania-bearing minerals used in blast furnace ironmaking satisfy two needs: as a ferrous burden component and for hearth campaign extension. Littl... More...

OSHA Silica Rule - How SDI Is Achieving Compliance (Room 413)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Safety & Health

Speaker(s): Justin Hoover
OSHA has issued a new respirable crystalline silica standard for general industry. This paper discusses how Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) was able to a... More...

Presentation of the RFCS Project BINGO – Bulk Density and Internal Gas Pressure in Coke Ovens (Room 403)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Cokemaking

Speaker(s): Maximilian Hoven
This project aims at increasing coke plant service life by controlling internal gas pressure in industrial ovens. A main point that was highlighted... More...

Revamping of GL#4 at Hoa Sen Phú Mỹ Plant (Vietnam) (Room 310)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Galvanizing

Speaker(s): Gordon Kohler ; Nguyen Thanh Phat
Hoa Sen is a major producer in the highly competitive Vietnamese market, with a substantial export business. To meet the demand for more and highe... More...

Some Sources of Variation in the Strength of Hot-Rolled Strip (Room 306)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Eugene Nikitenko
Variation in strength along the length of hot-rolled strip presents a challenge of complying with gauge tolerances at the cold mill. Such strength ... More...

State-of-the-Art Automation for Water Treatment Plants for the Iron and Steel Industry (Room 401)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Environmental

Speaker(s): Edgardo LaBruna
Water treatment plants are a necessary and vital part of the production of steel. Continuous operation is required to provide adequate water to the... More...

The Digital Twin in Continuous Casting — A New Dimension in Automation Technology (Room 316)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Electrical Applications

Speaker(s): Brannon Moore ; Christian Brugger ; Daniel Fuchshuber ; Paul Pennerstorfer ; Reinhold Leitner
A digital twin, which is an intelligent digital representation of a physical plant, product or process, allows metallurgists and process engineers ... More...

Advances in Cooling Water Treatment for the Steel Industry (Room 401)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Environmental

Speaker(s): Brad Buecker ; Jeremy Leitze ; Mark Bush ; Ray Post
Cooling water is a critical commodity in the steel industry. Scaling, microbiological fouling and corrosion in cooling systems can cause serious pr... More...

Analysis of Phosphorus Band in Interstitial-Free High-Strength Steel (Room 411)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Metallurgy - Steelmaking & Casting

Speaker(s): Akshay Khullar ; Avinash Kumar ; Ranjay Singh ; Ravinder Pathania ; Shainu Suresh ; Subhajit Maity ; Sudipto Sarkar ; Vinay Mahashabde
Interstitial-free, high-strength steel used for door applications was reported to have band marks after press forming along the rolling direction. ... More...

Billet Defects: Off-Corner Crack Formation, Prevention and Evolution (Room 407)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Continuous Casting

Speaker(s): Cristian Genzano ; Jorge Madias
This paper is a review of off-corner cracks, an internal defect in continuous casting semis. The discussion includes the metallographic features of... More...

Collection Main Crossover Valve Pressure Control (Room 403)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Cokemaking

Speaker(s): Mark Ferra
Collection main pressure control is a critical application in cokemaking. Gases generated during charging create pressure surges, requiring accurat... More...

Combined Lines (CGL-CCL) (Room 310)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Galvanizing

Speaker(s): Giuseppe Callegari
Combining two different processes in the same line, e.g., galvanizing and color coating, brings a significant savings in CAPEX and OPEX. Through re... More...

Developments of Dephosphorization at Hyundai Steel (Room 409)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Oxygen Steelmaking

Speaker(s): ByungJu Song ; ChangOh Lee ; JongDeok Kim ; JongOh Jo ; SangHun Kim ; TaeIl Yun
Dephosphorization has always been viewed as a challenge in the steelmaking process. Compared to steelmakers in Europe, since the P concentration of... More...

Effect of Solution Treatment on Grain Size and Toughness of Lightweight Fe-Mn-Al-C Steel (Room 412)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Metallurgy - Processing, Products & Applications

Speaker(s): Daniel Field ; Krista Limmer
An age-hardenable Fe-Mn-Al-C steel was heat treated and impact toughness tested using Charpy V-notch testing at room temperature. The solutionizing... More...

Energy Efficiency Gains With Heat Recovery and ORC in High-Performance EAFs (Room 406)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Ilaria Peretti
Recovering EAF offgas waste heat is a key to improve energy efficiency in electric steelmaking. EAF heat recovery with evaporation cooling and stea... More...

Extension of Stainless Steel Refining Complex by Twin Tank VOD Unit (Room 414)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Specialty Alloy & Foundry

Speaker(s): Jochen Schlueter ; Rainer Teworte ; Thomas Eichert ; Volker Wiegmann
Fujian Fuxin Special Steel, a flat steel producer located in mainland China, runs a production line for stainless steel consisting of an electric a... More...

Implementation of a Tuyere Leak Detection Soft Sensor on USS Blast Furnace No. 14 (Room 405)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Ironmaking

Speaker(s): Ian Cameron ; John Busser ; John G. Grindey ; Michael Bodley ; Mitren Sukhram ; Ralph Albanese ; Ravi Pula ; Yasser Ghobara
Leaking tuyeres damage hearth refractories, chill the hearth and cause production losses. U. S. Steel and Hatch implemented a soft sensor at blast ... More...

Lime-Magnetite Pellets (LMPs) for Ironmaking (Room 402)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Akbar Rhamdhani ; Geoffrey Brooks ; Mark Pownceby ; N. Ware ; Suneeti Purohit
In this paper, the prospects of using lime-magnetite pellets (LMPs) as an alternative, reactive feed material in ironmaking is examined. The reacti... More...

Maximize Asset Value Through Risk-Based Asset Management: Sharing an Approach for Building an Effective Asset Management Plan (Room 315)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Computer Applications

Speaker(s): Gerald Ayling
To realize the Smelter 4.0 vision, an organization must first shift its mentality from viewing assets as consumable to embracing the notion that as... More...

Optimization of Ca Additions for Inclusion Modification (Room 410)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Ladle & Secondary Refining/Metallurgy - Steelmaking & Casting

Speaker(s): Bryan Webler ; P. Chris Pistorius ; Yilmaz Kacar
Optimization of the Ca amount in steel plays a crucial role in inclusion modification with calcium treatment. While inadequate Ca in steel causes s... More...

Predictive Process Control — The Next Step to Quality Assurance (Room 306)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): August Sprock ; Michael Breuer ; Michael Peretic
During hot rolling of strips, process disturbances are common. Temperature drops caused by rolling delays or variations in the chemical composition... More...

Results of Using Laser Triangulation for Measuring Surface Defects in Long Products (Room 308)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Long Products

Speaker(s): Michael Kruse
Accepted for profile measurement, laser triangulation technology is increasingly being used to detect surface defects. These defects can either be ... More...

Simulating Slips: Using Kinesthetic Learning Techniques to Reduce Susceptibility to Slippery Walking Surfaces (Room 413)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Safety & Health

Speaker(s): Erik Archer
Slick walking surfaces are a hazard that many steel manufacturing facilities combat on a routine basis, whether they be due to weather, leaks or in... More...

Study of Vaporized Water as a Root Cause for Undermining BF Hearth’s Heat Transfer System (Room 404)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Ironmaking

Speaker(s): Biao Ouyang ; Xuewen Xiao ; Zhongping Zou
This paper analyzes the critical and restraining factors on the blast furnace’s hearth service life. It presents the viewpoints that the solidified... More...

The Use of Virtual Reality in Examining Strip Flatness (Room 316)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Electrical Applications

Speaker(s): Donald Gray
The use of virtual reality to visualize strip flatness over longer lengths than is possible with traditional camera-based systems could be of great... More...

A Low Phosphorus Cooling Water Treatment Program Solves Scaling and Corrosion Issues for Steel Mills (Room 401)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Environmental

Speaker(s): John Cioffi
Most cooling water treatment programs utilize inorganic phosphate or polyphosphate-based chemistry for corrosion control and provide a source for c... More...

A Revised Concept of Quality Performance Measurement (Room 315)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Computer Applications

Speaker(s): Cesar Abreu ; Henrique Rohlfs ; Hugo Gonçalves ; Julio Cesar Ferreira
It is traditional in the steelmaking industry to measure a product's quality performance using the metallic yield concept; however, losses can be i... More...

An Automated Quantitative Assessment of Slab Centerline Segregation Using Image Analysis (Room 411)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Metallurgy - Steelmaking & Casting

Speaker(s): Amar De ; Denis Hennessy ; John Somasundaram ; Siddhartha Biswas
Big River Steel is engaged in the production of hot-rolled skelp for oil and gas pipelines requiring sound and clean internal microstructure. Based... More...

Effect of Inclusions on the Properties of High-Grade Cold-Rolled Non-Oriented Silicon Steel (Room 412)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Metallurgy - Processing, Products & Applications

Speaker(s): Alexander McLean ; Li Xiang ; Pei Zhao ; Shengtao Qiu ; Yindong Yang
In this paper, the effects of the main features of the inclusions on the magnetic properties of high-grade cold-rolled non-oriented silicon steels ... More...

Effect of MgO Addition on Iron Ore Pellet Quality (Room 402)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Jong Min Oh
MgO-added fluxed pellet was investigated to optimize MgO content in the ironmaking process in order to satisfy both the viscosity of BF slag and st... More...

Evolution of Inclusions in High-Sulfur and Low-Oxygen Steels After Calcium Treatment (Room 410)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Ladle & Secondary Refining/Metallurgy - Steelmaking & Casting

Speaker(s): Ji Zhang ; Lifeng Zhang ; Weijian Wang ; Xiaohui Sun ; Yan Luo ; Ying Ren
The evolution of inclusions in high-sulfur and low-oxygen steels after calcium treatment was investigated through industrial experiments. After the... More...

Experimental Investigation of Hydrochar Injection to the Blast Furnace (Room 405)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Ironmaking

Speaker(s): Chuan Wang ; Guangwei Wang ; Gunnar Westin ; Jianliang Zhang ; Jonna Almqvist ; Kaidi Wang ; Nan Zhang
An experimental study was performed to investigate the suitability of hydrochar for blast furnace (BF) injection. Three hydrochar samples originate... More...

Hearth Temperature Control at USS Blast Furnace No. 14 (Room 404)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Ironmaking

Speaker(s): Brian Rogers ; Du Lee ; Ian Cameron ; Jason Entwistle ; John Busser ; John G. Grindey ; Kyle Chomyn ; Maher Al-Dojayli ; Michael Bodley ; Michael McCoy ; Mitren Sukhram ; Paul Towsey ; Ralph Albanese ; Rishi Midha ; Todd Schrenk ; Yasser Ghobara
In 2016, 10 years after the hearth was installed, blast furnace No. 14 experienced rapid hearth wall temperature increases under the three tapholes... More...

Implementation of a Reliable Positioning and Interlocking System for Coke (Room 403)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Cokemaking

Speaker(s): Edgardo LaBruna
Measuring the actual position of a charge, pusher, door machine or quenching car at a coke plant battery has always been a tough task due to differ... More...

Improving Periodic Defect Detection in Hot-Rolled Long Products by Means of a Combination Between Eddy Current and Vision (Room 308)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Long Products

Speaker(s): Bruno Chedal-Anglay ; Jose Ignacio Diaz ; José Ignacio Lucas Fuentes
Periodic defects in hot rolling are some of the most critical ones. Timely detection may dramatically reduce the number of bad coils to be delivere... More...

In-Situ Observation and Formation Mechanism of Iron Surface Oxidation in the Initial Stages at 1,150°C (Room 306)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Bryan Webler ; Elyce Milligan ; Ming Zhong ; P. Chris Pistorius ; Yining He
This study examined the evolution in surface morphology during initial stages of iron and steel oxidation. Polished samples were oxidized from 2 to... More...

Intelligent Melting System at Kroman Çelik EAF: Performance Results During One Year of Operation (Room 406)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Damiano Patrizio ; Manuele Piazza ; Marco Ansoldi ; Orhan Kuran
The present work analyzes the results achieved in the Kroman Çelik EAF one year after the installation of the Q-MELT automatic EAF system and the r... More...

Production of High-Grade Metal Powder for Additive Manufacturing by Using the Powder Atomization Plant of SMS group GmbH (Room 414)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Specialty Alloy & Foundry

Speaker(s): Markus Hüllen ; Markus Reifferscheid ; Peter Weiland ; Tobias Brune
To control all major steps of metal additive manufacturing (AM), SMS group has set up a full-scale powder atomization plant for the production of h... More...

Production of Ultralow-Phosphorus Steels in the BOF: Meeting the Technical and Operational Challenges (Room 409)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Oxygen Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Brahma Deo ; Kanan Sahoo ; Sunil Kumar
Ultralow-P steels (≤0.005% P) can be produced through hot metal (HM) pre-treatment in a ladle or torpedo, a single-slag practice, a double “de-slag... More...

The Road to Digitalization Is Paved With Intelligent Solutions (Room 316)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Electrical Applications

Speaker(s): Bernhard Voglmayr ; Reinhold Leitner ; Richard Stadlmayr ; Roman Aspetsberger ; Thomas Kuehas ; Wolfgang Oberaigner
Today’s steel production is driven by process optimization and efficient productivity. For a reliable and sustainable solution, the answer is digit... More...

To the Point Without a Pinch - The Right Way to Guard (Room 413)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Safety & Health

Speaker(s): Chris Allen
This paper will demonstrate how to properly and compliantly guard rotating equipment and belt conveyor guarding applications. Key topics that will ... More...

Upgrade of ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor #2 Galvanizing Line Making 2CGL Great Again (Room 310)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Galvanizing

Speaker(s): David Parker ; John Seaman ; Robert Vanderzee
ArcelorMittal's 1964 vintage #2 Continuous Galvanizing Line at Indiana Harbor was upgraded in 2018 to provide for increased production and access t... More...

A Study of Ferrosilicon-Based Calcium Treatment of Al-Killed and Si-Killed Steels (Room 410)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Ladle & Secondary Refining/Metallurgy - Steelmaking & Casting

Speaker(s): Stephano Piva
Calcium contained in ferrosilicon can modify non-metallic inclusions with a higher yield than calcium wire-based processes. Experiments were perfor... More...

Advanced Continuous Annealing Technology and Application for High-Strength Steel (Room 412)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Metallurgy - Processing, Products & Applications

Speaker(s): Leigang Gu ; Qiang-qiang Xia ; Xun-guo Liang ; Yeke Wang
This paper focuses on technological process and characteristics of the Yieh Phui annealing line. CISDI built a large-sized continuous annealing lin... More...

Blast Furnace Campaign Extension at JSW BF#3 (Room 404)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Ironmaking

Speaker(s): Afshin Sadri ; L.R. Singh ; Mallikarjun L ; Mitchel Henstock ; Rajesh Anand ; Srinivas Rao ; Sunil Kumar ; Winnie Ying ; Yakov Gordon
Reliable and stable operation with longer blast furnace campaign allows an increase in utilization of blast furnace for production of hot metal. Pr... More...

Building the First Prototype IIoT Solution for Your Power System (Room 316)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Electrical Applications

Speaker(s): Anil Kanagala ; Hiranya Pathak ; Poojit Lingam
This paper presents a prototype Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution using readily available hardware and software platforms. A data acqui... More...

Cloud-Based Process Management of Inspection Instruments (Room 315)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Computer Applications

Speaker(s): Alex Thurston
Recent development of wireless-connected inspection instruments and cloud-based software solutions are enabling efficiency gains in the management ... More...

Comparative Analysis of Arc Flash Solutions — A Case Study (Room 413)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Safety & Health

Speaker(s): Ramesh Khajjayam ; Sonal Bhatt
This paper presents an evaluation of several active and passive arc flash reduction solutions based on NFPA 70E. A case study simulation is perfor... More...

Complete Package for Cokemaking Stamping Technology (Room 403)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Cokemaking

Speaker(s): Mathias Hoffmann ; Wolfgang Kern
Availability, quality and cost of coking coal, which may influence cost of steel production in the range of 20%, play a vital role for cokemaking ... More...

Environmental and Personnel Safety Advantages of On-Line Robotic Water Tower Cleaning (Room 401)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Environmental

Speaker(s): Joe Leist ; Randi Morgan ; Steven Rydarowski
On-line robotics are changing the costs and risks associated with industrial water tank cleaning. By keeping tanks full and on-line, water is not w... More...

Holistic Approach of Real-Time Product Quality Management at New Integrated Steel Plant, Shandong Iron & Steel, Rizhao, China (Room 306)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Hot Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Ingo Schuster ; Wolfgang Spies
In Rizhao, China, Shandong Iron & Steel built a new flat steel production facility with a capacity of 8.5 million tons per year. The entire plant, ... More...

Hydrogen Control of Large Bottom Poured Forging Ingots at Ellwood Quality Steels (Room 414)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Specialty Alloy & Foundry

Speaker(s): Bjorn Gabrielsson ; Brendan Connolly ; Hongliang Yang ; Sean Cowden ; Steve Lubinski
Hydrogen removal and hydrogen pickup during liquid steel processing at Ellwood Quality Steels are studied in detail with particular emphasis on the... More...

Importance of Ore Characteristics in Iron Ore Pelletizing (Room 402)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Liming Lu
Pelletizing is one of the most common agglomeration technologies for preparing iron ore concentrates for conventional and other alternative ironmak... More...

Influence of Fluxes in Steel Desulfurization (Room 409)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Oxygen Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Anna Paula Littig Berger ; Henrique Silva Furtado ; José Roberto de Oliveira ; Rodrigo de Oliveira Pezzin ; Silas Gambarine Soares
The present paper has the objective of proposing desulfurizing mixtures capable of producing steels with a sulfur content of less than 20 ppm. Desu... More...

IQRS Round-Robin Results (Room 411)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Metallurgy - Steelmaking & Casting

Speaker(s): Sunday Abraham
IQRS Centerline Round Robin Results More...

Quantifying the Effect of Coke Layer Thickness on Permeability of the Cohesive Zone in the Blast Furnace by Using a New Simulator (Room 405)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Ironmaking

Speaker(s): Jun Ishii ; Kazuhira Ichikawa ; Kiyoshi Fukada ; Taihei Nouchi ; Toshiyuki Hirosawa ; Yusuke Kashihara
A new apparatus called a cohesive zone simulator was developed. Coke slit layer thickness in a cohesive zone in a blast furnace is one of the impor... More...

Synergy in surface inspection and profile measurement for bar and rod rolling facilities (Room 308)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Long Products

Speaker(s): Howard Huang ; Jianjun Shi ; Tzyy-shuh Chang
The development of on-line inspection technologies is gaining focus in the rolling mills due to the new trend of digitization. Imaging-based appro... More...

Vibration Analysis on Electrode Column in AC EAF Based on Local Force Densities Developed by Rapid Change of Current and Arc Stability (Room 406)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Anil Seemon ; Bipin Richharia ; Juan Ramon Fernandez ; Tamil Selvan Nagarajan
The EAF has one of the most non-linear loads, with extreme power that can induce severe power quality problems in the network. The nature of the lo... More...

CFD Simulation of Dry Density Separation of Iron Ore Fines (Room 402)

06 May 19
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Achintya Das ; Anand Senguttuvan ; Ganesh Chalavadi ; Ranjeet Singh
Dry ore beneficiation is an alternative approach to wet processing aimed at minimizing the energy expense. Ore fines fed onto a separator plate and... More...

Control of Calcium Sulfide Formation in Calcium Treated Steels (Room 410)

06 May 19
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Ladle & Secondary Refining/Metallurgy - Steelmaking & Casting

Speaker(s): Rakesh Dhaka ; Scott Story
Control of Calcium Sulfide Formation in Calcium Treated Steels More...

Driving Business Value in Industry 4.0: Big Data and Analytics for the Improvement of Steel Processes (Room 316)

06 May 19
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Electrical Applications

Speaker(s): Aracely Martinez ; Esteban Lopez ; Ivonne Ibarra ; Marcelo Saparrat
Global steel producers face new challenges every day due to the need to be competitive in their markets and, at the same time, produce high-quality... More...

First Movable KR in India Has Successfully Started Up in JSW Steel at Vijayanagar (Room 409)

06 May 19
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Oxygen Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Abhijit Sarkar ; Kento Nagata ; Kiyoharu Ito ; Navin Desai
A KR hot metal desulfurization plant has successfully started up at two steel melting shops at JSW Steel's Vijayanagar Works. The plant is the firs... More...

Industry 4.0 - The Evolution of Intelligent EAF Steelmaking (Room 315)

06 May 19
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Computer Applications

Speaker(s): Doug Zuliani ; Vittorio Scipolo
The recent development of smart technology and high-speed computer analysis is rapidly reshaping the traditional “seat-of-the-pants” EAF process in... More...

Meltshop Tackles Challenging Fall Protection Issue (Room 413)

06 May 19
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Safety & Health

Speaker(s): Charlie Droessler
Not all people and materials can withstand the extreme and demanding environment of a steel mill. This presentation describes a situation where an ... More...

Panel Discussion: IQRS Centerline (Room 411)

06 May 19
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Metallurgy - Steelmaking & Casting

Speaker(s): Jason Nicholson ; Joydeep Sengupta ; Sunday Abraham
Panel Discussion More...

Reduction of Operational Cost and Zero Water Consumption by Meltshop Cooling System Upgrade (Room 401)

06 May 19
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Environmental

Speaker(s): Gianmaria Zanni ; Giovanni Bolcato ; Luca Campagnolo
Beltrame Group upgraded the EAF cooling system of their main plant in order to reduce the energy consumption of a water consumption system to zero.... More...

The Stabilization of CGL Air Knives through the use of Auxiliary Jets (Room 310)

06 May 19
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Galvanizing

Speaker(s): Donal Finnerty ; Frank Goodwin ; Joseph McDermid ; Samir Ziada
Air knives impinging on a moving substrate generate high intensity tonal noise and exhibit large amplitude oscillations that negatively affect the ... More...

A Buyer's Guide to Cranes (Room 318)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Project & Construction Management

Speaker(s): Alan Horgan ; Jennifer Pasek ; Kevin Hoffmeyer
An overview of current crane specifications (AIST, CMAA, European Standards) and interpretations as they apply to various steel mill crane applicat... More...

Adding Life to Water-Cooled Power Cables Through Innovation in Core Construction (Room 316)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Electrical Applications

Electric arc furnace (EAF) technology represents around 25% of global steel production. Short-lived service of EAF water-cooled power cables are an... More...

Advanced Cold Isostatic Press MgO-C Brick (Room 319)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Refractory Systems

Speaker(s): Atsuhisa Iida ; Hiroki Yoshioka ; Hisashi Tomiya ; Masayoshi Kakihara ; Shohei Kaneko
Cold isostatic press (CIP) is widely used for manufacturing shaped refractories. CIP made it possible to manufacture large mono-piece products, lik... More...

Anisotropy Evaluation of Steel Plates for Large-Diameter Pipeline Application (Room 412)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Metallurgy - Processing, Products & Applications

Speaker(s): Carlos Noberto Paula da Silva ; Daniel Bojikian Matsubara ; Emanuelle Garcia Reis ; José Herbert Dolabela da Silveira ; Rafael Abreu Fraga
The anisotropy of tension properties on a steel plate can, potentially, generate catastrophic failures during application. Critical examples can be... More...

Annealing and Galvanizing of Third-Generation AHSS Grades (Room 310)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Galvanizing

Speaker(s): Caesar Sasse ; Fritz Brühl ; Keith Watson
Third-generation advanced high-strength steel grades (AHSS grades) are complex materials with special chemical compositions and microstructures. Th... More...

Application of Heat Transfer Regularities to Control Wind Rate Among Blast Furnace Tuyeres (Room 404)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Ironmaking

Speaker(s): Alekander Pavlov ; Andrey Polinov ; Nikolai Spirin ; Oleg Onorin ; Yakov Gordon
Uneven distribution of hot blast among the tuyeres leads to variation in raceway length, causing a difference in material descent and gas flow in v... More...

Changes to the Characteristics of Inclusions Upon Solidification in AHSS Steels (Room 411)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Metallurgy - Steelmaking & Casting

Speaker(s): Bryan Webler ; Chengsong Liu
Changes to inclusions upon solidification must be understood to fully describe inclusion evolution during steel processing. This study examined inc... More...

China’s Bayi Steel Pickling Line and Tandem Cold Mill (Room 307)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Cold Sheet Rolling

Speaker(s): Bin Li ; Erhu Xie ; Leigang Gu ; Xianjun Liu ; Xiaojun Yu ; Yeke Wang
Bayi Steel’s pickling line and tandem coil mill were started up in 2005. Most of the equipment, then second-hand, were worn and failed after 13 yea... More...

Controlling Equipment Failures Caused by Petroleum-Based Fluid Degradation (Room 317)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Maintenance & Reliability

Speaker(s): John Schlobohm
Air compressors, gearboxes and hydraulic systems that use mineral oils are susceptible to varnish and sludge. The life expectancy of petroleum-base... More...

Digital twin - Forming technology in industrial plant construction Simulation - Virtual production - Production plant (Room 315)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Digital Transformation

Speaker(s): Koos van Putten ; Mark Haverkamp ; Markus Reifferscheid
From a machine builder perspective the digital twin is the digital representation of a real machine.It does not matter whether it already exists in... More...

Effect of Bubble Behavior for a Stopper Rod With Multiple Side-Channel Injection on Bubble Size Distributions in Nozzle and Mold During Continuous Casting of Steel (Room 407)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Continuous Casting

Speaker(s): Brian Thomas ; Seong-Mook Cho
Argon gas injection is widely used to prevent nozzle clogging during continuous casting of steel. The argon also greatly affects fluid flow in the ... More...

Effect of Coal Mineral Type and Size on Coke Strength After Reaction (Room 403)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Cokemaking

Speaker(s): Barry Ryan ; Jason Halko ; John Price ; Louis Giroux ; Qun Zhang
Hot and cold strengths of cokes are important for determining value in use of metallurgical coals. Strengths depend on coal rank, inert content and... More...

Effect of Different Iron Ore Pellet Qualities on the HYL Direct Reduction Process (Room 402)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Direct Reduced Iron

Speaker(s): Adrian Cruz Espinoza ; Andrea Licerio Gonzalez ; Jesus Navarro Castruita ; Mario Llamas Bueno
The effect of different iron ore pellet quality in the HYL direct reduction process was evaluated with focus on productivity, quality and fines gen... More...

Experience Report of Technology Update Width Control – Delta Speed on CSP® Plant JSW Dolvi, India (Room 408)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Continuous Casting

Speaker(s): Holger Beyer-Steinhauer ; Lothar Schaps ; Matt Korzi
On the Compact Strip Production (CSP®) plant at JSW Dolvi, India, an update to the X-Pact® Width Control – Delta Speed technology was made in a ver... More...

Fast Track to Developing an Energy Management System (Room 320)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Energy & Utilities

Speaker(s): Tari Emerson
Are you interested in saving utility costs? Find out how a steel mill developed an energy management system from scratch and in less than three yea... More...

Improving an EAF Air Pollution Control System Using New Filter Technologies (Room 406)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Environmental/Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Tim Fisher
A major Midwest USA steel mill was suffering from a combination of excessive bag failures and high flow resistance through their Pulse Jet baghouse... More...

Investigation of High-Rate and Pre-Heated Natural Gas Injection in the Blast Furnace (Room 405)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Ironmaking

Speaker(s): Chenn Zhou ; John D'Alessio ; Mitchell Klaas ; Samuel Nielson ; Stuart Street ; Tyamo Okosun
With the recent interest in high-rate natural gas (NG) injection in North America, it is necessary to further explore the impacts of such operation... More...

Multi-Lance Probe for In-Blow and End-Blow Applications: A Fast Converter Sample Analysis (Room 409)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Oxygen Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Dries Beyens ; Jan Cuypers
The QuiK-Spec probe was developed to provide a fast and reliable analysis of the most critical elements, such as carbon, phosphorus, sulfur and man... More...

Optimization of Hot Rolling Roughing Mill Rolls to Prevent Premature Occurrence of Contact Fatigue Damage (Room 309)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Rolls

Speaker(s): Gisele Walmag ; Mario Sinnaeve ; Olivier Lemaire ; Sebastien Flament
Many hot rolling mills worldwide are facing bonding zone fatigue problems on their roughing work rolls before reaching their scrap diameter. This c... More...

Selecting the Right Abrasive Cutoff System (Room 308)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Long Products

This paper provides a practical engineering and design overview for anyone considering a new, large-diameter abrasive cutoff machine. This paper a... More...

Slag Engineering for Phosphorus Removal in the EAF and Sulfur Removal in the Ladle (Room 410)

06 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Ladle & Secondary Refining

Speaker(s): Gary Brown ; Miles Haberkom ; Randy Petty ; Rick Bodnar ; Sunday Abraham ; Tim Sprague ; Tony Franks ; Wesley Nicholson ; Wesley Woods ; Yufeng Wang
Slag-metal reaction kinetics and thermodynamics are dependent on physical and chemical properties of the slag. During steel refining, the two prima... More...
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