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Modern Iron and Steel Making

MDP263 AND MDP253

English Description

Steel making fundamentals: Steelmaking reactions such as oxidation of carbon, silicon, manganese, iron, phosphorous and chromium, Numerical problems, Role of refractory. Steel making practice: Bessemer and open-hearth steel making, Blast furnace iron making, Basic oxygen steel making, Electric furnace steel making and vacuum treatment, ladle metallurgy, deoxidation and teeming practice, ingot production, ingot defects and remedies, testing of steel products, inspection of steel products. Clean steel, ingot and continuous casting, final finishing operations like heat treatment and deformation processing.
Arabic Description

Steel making fundamentals: Steelmaking reactions such as oxidation of carbon, silicon, manganese, iron, phosphorous and chromium, Numerical problems, Role of refractory. Steel making practice: Bessemer and open-hearth steel making, Blast furnace iron making, Basic oxygen steel making, Electric furnace steel making and vacuum treatment, ladle metallurgy, deoxidation and teeming practice, ingot production, ingot defects and remedies, testing of steel products, inspection of steel products. Clean steel, ingot and continuous casting, final finishing operations like heat treatment and deformation processing.

Department
Design and Production Engineering
Credit Hours
3
Grades
Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (25) + tr.Major Assessment (30 = tr.Industry 10% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 25% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
Hours
Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
Required SWL
125
Equivalent ECTS
5

- Hosford William F. 2012. Iron and Steel. New York: Cambridge University Press.