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2017 Fall Term
12366 MET 479E IRON AND STEEL MAKING COURSE SYLLABUS
Course Evaluation
2 midterm exam %20+20
1 termhomework (or presentation optional) %10
Final exam % 50
Course Plan
1st week 13.09.2017
Introduction. Steel production flow charts, definitions and history. Steel industry in Turkey and the World, raw materials, metallurgical operations in Iron and steel production.
2 nd week 20.09.2017
Metallurgical coke production, parameters affecting properties of coke. Iron ores, minerals and iron ore characterization. Iron ores charge preparation processes (metallurgical pre-processing and ore dressing).
3rd week 27.09.2017
Sintering of iron ores and concentrates Pelletizing of iron ore concentrates Agglomeration products, features and tests. Fluxes.
4th week 04.10.2017
Production of crude-pig iron. Blast furnace and production plants, Blast Furnace liquid crude iron production, principles and technology, reduction chemistry of iron oxides
5th week 11.10.2017
Basic principles of passing the elements to slag and liquid iron and the effects of operating parameters in blast furnace
6th week 18.10.2017
Blast furnace –. Processes and technologies to improve blast furnace efficiency. Tuyere injections.
7th week
Midterm Exam I 25.10.2017
***Mid-Semester Break 30 October -3 November 2017***
8th week 08.11.2017
Basic oxygen steel making. Recent developments in basic oxygen converters. AOD converter and stainless steel production principles and technologies.
9th week 15.11.2017
Electric arc furnace primary and / or secondary sources and developments in steel production.
10th week 22.11.2017
Primary sources (DRI, HBI) and secondary sources (scrap). Refining of steel mill operations Applications.
11th week 29.11.2017
Midterm Exam II
12th week 06.12.2017
De-oxidation and alloying technology and alloying materials (ferro-alloys) and the general principles.
Refining, deoxidizing, and alloying operations, and the principles and practices (Ladle Metallurgy - Secondary Metallurgy) and steel casting technologies.
13th. week 13.12.2017
New - alternative Technologies in Iron and steel production, and their applications.
14th. week 20.12.2017
General considerations. Presentations – optional. |