ML3210 PRIMARY PROCESSING OF IRON AND STEEL SYLLABUS | ANNA UNIVERSITY BE MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 4TH SEM SYLLABUS REGULATION 2008 2011 2012-2013

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ML3210 PRIMARY PROCESSING OF IRON AND STEEL LT P C
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OBJECTIVE
The course covers the production of iron and steel from raw material, primary processing
to refinement to special steels.
UNIT I RAW MATERIALS AND BURDEN PREPARATION 8
Iron ore classification, Indian iron ores, limestone and coking coal deposits, problems
associated with Indian raw materials, Iron Ore beneficiation and agglomeration, theory
and practice of sintering and pelletizing, testing of burden materials, burden distribution
on blast furnace performance.Recycling os steel products.
UNIT II BLAST FURNACE OPERATION AND REACTIONS 10
Blast furnace parts, construction and design aspects, ancillary equipment for charging,
preheating the blast, gas cleaning, pig casting, blast furnace instrumentation and control
of furnace. Blast furnace operation, irregularities and remedies. Compositional control
of metal and slag in blast furnace, modern trends in blast furnace practice. Reduction of
iron ores and oxides of iron by solid and gaseous reductions-thermodynamics and
kinetics study of direct and indirect reduction, Gruner’s theorem, blast furnace reactions.
C-O and Fe-C-O equilibria, Rist diagrams, material and heat balance.
UNIT III PRINCIPLES OF STEEL MAKING 9
Development of steel making processes, physico-chemical principles and kinetic aspects
of steel making, carbon boil, oxygen transport mechanism, desulphurisation,
dephosphorisation, slag-functions, composition, properties and theories, raw materials
for steel making and plant layout.
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UNIT IV BESSEMER, OPEN HEARTH AND OXYGEN STEEL MAKING
PROCESSES 9
Acid and Basic Bessemer processes, Side Blown Converter, O.H- constructional
features, process types, operation, modified processes, duplexing, pre-treatment of hot
metal. Top Blown processes-L.D, L.D.A.C., bottom blown processes, combined blown
processes, rotating oxygen processes-kaldo and rotor, modern trends in oxygen steel
making processes.
UNIT V CAST IRON, LADLE METALLURGY AND ELECTRIC
STEEL MAKING 9
Arc and Induction furnace-constructional features. Production practice for plain carbon
steels, low alloy – Cast irons and ductile iron, stainless, tool and special steels, modern
developments. Secondary steel making processes, continuous steel making processes
– Deoxidation and teeming practice. Principle, methods and their comparison, killed,
rimmed and capped steels, degassing practices, ingot production, ingot defects and
remedies, continuous casting. Indian steel industry and global trends in steel making
technology.
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS
1. Tupkary,R.H., “Modern Iron Making”, 3rd edition, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi,
2000.
2. Tupkary, R.H., “Modern Steel Making”, 3rd Edition, Khanna Publications, New Delhi,
2000.
REFERENCES
1. Biswas, A.K., “Principles of blast furnace iron making – theory and practice”, SBA
Publications, Kolkata, 1994.
2. Bashforth, G. R., “Manufacture of Iron and Steel”, Vol. I, Chapman and Hall London,
1964.
3. Bashforth, G. R., “Manufacture of Iron and Steel”, Vol.2, 3rd Edition, Chapman &
Hall, London, 1964.
4. “Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel”, US Steel Corporation, 11th edition, 1994.