In this paper, a two-stage dynamic game model of China’s iron and steel industry is constructed. Carbon tax levy, product subsidy, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and other factors are included in the emission reduction mechanism. The effects of emissions reduction and the economic impact of China’s overall steel industry (and that of its six main regions) are investigated for the first ...

This study aims to compare 3 observational techniques for assessing postural load, namely, OWAS, RULA, and REBA. The comparison was based on the evaluation results generated by the classification techniques using 301 working postures. All postures were sampled from the iron and steel, electronics, automotive, and chemical industries, and a general hospital. While only about 21% of the 301 postu...

A text-book on this subject has been long overdue and the authors are to be congratulated on the production of such an interesting and readable volume which contains much important work hitherto accessible to the student only in scattered writings. The book includes admirable descriptions of modern industrial processes, viz., mining, iron and steel working, textile industries, potteries and gla...

The NIST Construction Metrology and Automation Group, in cooperation with the NIST Intelligent Systems Division, is researching robotic structural steel placement as part of a project to develop an Automated Steel Construction Testbed. This project was initiated in response to industry requests for advanced tools and methodologies to speed the erection of steel structures while maintaining or e...

M. Suliga, R. Kruzel, Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland In the paper the influence of bidirectional bending on breaking force of steel cord has been assessed. Tests were carried out under laboratory conditions on three types of cord. It was found that bidirectional bending of steel cord cause the deterioration of strength properties and weakening of steel cord as a resul...

Pathogenic microorganisms are able to adhere on equipment surfaces, being possible to contaminate food during processing. Salmonella spp. and Listeria monocytogenes are important pathogens that can be transmitted by food, causing severe foodborne diseases. Most surfaces of food processing industry are made of stainless steel joined by welds. However currently, there are few studies evaluating t...

In this case study we discuss a simple control system used for obtaining a desirable downstream surface temperature inside a hot rolling steel sheet, presented by Bao Steel in the HK Study Group with Industry, held at the City University of Hong Kong, July 2002.

With a legacy of legal cartels, protectionism and government intervention in private economic activity, Japan endorses a different system of competitive capitalism from that which prevails in the United States. This research examines the effect of Japan's competition policies on the development of Japan's postwar steel industry. In this paper, I describe my findings on the Japanese system of in...

Iron and steel industry is the base of the country economy. It is the important support of the social developing, and is the important basic industry of the modern economic. This paper studies the rolling mechanical model of rolling process control, fluid stress model, rolling torque model and the temperature change models. And put forward an on-line modeling method of rolling mill based Least-...