Subject Code: ML3L007 Subject Name: Iron and Steel making L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisites: Thermodynamics of materials (course), Transport phenomena and kinetics of metallurgical processes (course)
Introduction; blast furnace over view and statistics; raw material and mass balance; coal to coke; requirement on coke; sintering; the process of iron making-burden descent and reactions; gas channels and burden distribution; hot metal and slag control; Stops and startups; blow down; pig iron; casting.
Steel making in India/world; Classification of steel making processes;  production of primary and secondary steel;   slag chemistries and refining; BOF process and hybrid processes of steel making; raw material and efficiency in steel making; direct (without blast furnace) production of primary steel- HIsarna steelmaking process; secondary steel making; ingot solidification and continuous casting
Text/Reference Books:
  1. Ahindra Ghosh, Amit Chatterjee, Iron making and steelmaking: Theory and practice, Eastern economy edition, PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd., 2008
  2. Steel making, A.K. Chakrabarti,  Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd, 2007