Chemical Metallurgy of Steel

Course content

Introduction to iron and steelmaking processes. Blast furnace and its description. Reduction of iron oxides, bosh and hearth reactions, slag formation. Blast furnace operating practice, treatment of hot metal. Steelmaking; description of steelmaking processes, oxidation reactions, S, P, N, H in steelmaking. Alloy steelmaking. Deoxidation. Ladle metallurgy.