In the frame of support of decommissioning activities, JRC-GEEL produced a set of 12 grey cast iron tubes. These tubes contain known amounts of activity of 60Co and 108mAg. The tubes are intended to be used as a calibration standard for the detection efficiency of measurement facilities dealing ...
This collaborative project was coordinated by Tata Steel UK. It involved Gerdau- Sidenor I+D, voestalpine Stahl Donawitz GmbH (VASD), BFI, ArcelorMittal Research and Aalto University (TKK). The objective of this research was to improve steel cleanness, including improvement of the size and distr...
This was a cooperative project involving VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH (BFI), Tata Steel RD & T Teesside Technology Centre (formerly Corus), ArcelorMittal R & D Technological Centre — Centro Desarollo Tecnológico and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA). The focus was to develop innovative n...
The objective of the project was the development of techniques to improve the control of the energy input by natural gas burners and of the wall mounted oxygen and carbon injectors of the electric arc furnace (EAF). Process data acquisition and measurement systems for foamy slag detection were i...
A demonstration plant (30 000 tpy of pig iron) was built to test a new ironmaking process based on two production steps: pre-reduction of iron-bearing materials in an RHF, and hot DRI smelting in an innovative oxy-coal reactor. The new technology was conceived to be cost-effective: no need of el...
This report presents the essential results of the ECSC supported projects 'Direct application of direct steel products'. The multinational, multi-partner project involved the partners Corus UK Ltd, Centrum voor Research in de Metallurgie (CRM), Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen...
The aim of the project was to re-engineer, develop and test a new sytem to pour liquid steel from ladle to tundish. Casting shroud over pressurisation is induced with respect to atmosphere, beneficial for product quality (no steel re-oxidation), and cast saving (reduction of refractory costs and...
The project aims were to extend the scope of near liquidus casting work from single strand experiments to a more production-oriented system for use on more than one strand, involving trials at British Steel's Scunthorpe Works for large blooms (355 mm x 750 mm) with casting rates around 850 - 1 1...
This collaborative project involving Sidenor I+D (Spain) and CSM (Italy) is aimed at the development of a new mould geometry for a better control of the dendritic structure of the initial frozen shell in the continuous casting of billets. The work carried out by Sidenor I+D tries to show the inf...
