The total mortality and the incidence of cancer was studied among a cohort of employees at the six oldest ferrosilicon and ferromanganese plants in Norway. The cohort consisted of 6494 men employed for more than 18 months before 1970 and has been followed up from 1953 to 1982. The standardised incidence ratio (SIR) for cancer (all sites) was 0.94. The observed number of cancers was as expected ...

This paper investigates the control strategy for the electrical energy input to three phase electric arc ferrosilicon furnace. The classical PD fuzzy logic controller has two inputs. These inputs are the error in the V-I characteristic and the rate of the error in V-I characteristic. When the simulation result of this controller is compared with conventional PD type, it was shown that requires ...

The paper considers one of possible options for the waste-free processing dumped masses nickel slags, accumulated over years operation some enterprises. This process includes use hydroand pyrometallurgical processing, which results in three products: iron sulfate, ferrosilicon with a small admixture aluminum, and slag from smelting. has hardness 7-7.5 Mohs can be used as an abrasive powder sand...

Abstract: Ore mineral characterization and various experimental testwork were carried out on Asian Abe-Garm dolomite, Qazvin province, Iran. The testwork consisted of calcining, chemical characterization, LOI determination, and reduction tests on the calcined dolomite (doloma), using Semnan ferrosilicon. Calcining of dolomite sample was carried out at about 1400 ºC in order to remove the contai...

In this paper, we illustrate our new results on model validation for control and controller validation in a prediction error identification framework, developed in a companion paper (Gevers et al., 2002), through two realistic simulation examples, covering widely different control design applications. The first is the control of a flexible mechanical system (the Landau benchmark example) with a...

Results are presented of a cohort study on the incidence of cancers and crude death rates in ferrochromium and ferrosilicon workers. The whole cohort was observed from 1 January 1953 to 31 December 1985. Two sets of results are presented; one restricted to workers first employed before 1960 and one to workers first employed before 1965. The latter cohort consists of 1235 workers. The total mort...