Metallurgical activities have been undertaken in northern South America (NSA) for millennia. However, it is still unknown how far atmospheric emissions from these activities have been transported. Since the timing of metallurgical activities is currently estimated from scarce archaeological discoveries, the availability of reliable and continuous records to refine the timing of past metal depos...

Ferrochrome is the major chromium source for stainless steel production, and submerged-arc furnaces (SAF) are most commonly utilised to smelt chromite ores into ferrochrome by using suitable carbonaceous reductants such as coke. Because of the complexity of feed structure and electrical-thermal-chemical interactions, there exist large gradients and wide distributions of temperature, mineralogy ...

In order to discuss the atomization process of an analyte element occurring in a graphite furnace for atomic absorption spectrometry, we measured variations in the characteristic temperature with the progress of an atomization stage, by using a two-line method under the assumption of a Boltzmann distribution. For this purpose, iron was chosen as the analyte element. Also, the atomic absorption ...

Airborne particulate matter in the silicon carbide (SiC) industry is a known health hazard. The aims of this study were to elucidate whether the particulate matter generated inside the Acheson furnace during active operation is representative of the overall particulate matter in the furnace hall, and whether the Acheson furnaces are the main sources of ultrafine particles (UFP) in primary SiC p...

In this paper, by using the data of steel melting plant which contains major non-linear load i.e., induction furnace, we modeled such a system, which contains three 12-tons induction furnace in PSCAD software and simulated for three different operating conditions & studied harmonic pattern. Keywords—Induction Melting Furnace;Steel Melting Shop;Harmonics Analysis;Power Quality.

Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) steelmaking is an important way for steel production. Correctly recognizing different blowing periods and abnormal refining states significant to ensure normal production process, while accurately predicting the end-point time helps increase first-time qualification rate of molten steel. Since decarburization products CO CO2 are main compositions off-gas, information ...

Enlargement of quality requirements in metallurgical semi products used in cannon barrels production (forgings) has resulted in substantially increased number of defective products. The main issues are poor quality of plastic properties and yield point of processed materials. Careful analysis of forgings technology and adaptation of its constituent phases has not resulted in the quality enhance...

1DDS, MS, PhD student of the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. 2DDS, MS, PhD Associate Professor of the Biological Science Department, Bauru Dental School, University of Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil. 3Eng, MS, PhD, Associate Professor of the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department of the Federal Univers...

A fractured nutcracker was examined for determining the root cause/s for premature fracture/failure. This is one of the common tools used typically for cracking hard nuts. In this study, metallurgical failure analysis techniques namely, visual inspection, optical microscopy, SEM, and hardness tests were used in investigating the broken product. From the metallurgical analysis, it was determined...

B. Gajdzik, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Katowice, Poland The article presents the assumptions for construction of a transformation restructuring model which describes, in a complex way, the range of changes implemented in metallurgical enterprises in Poland in time of economical changes. The model was prepared on the basis of thorough rese...