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IRON AND STEEL

Overview

PROCESSES

  • Agglomeration
  • Coking
  • Blast Furnace
  • Direct Reduction
  • Basic Oxygen Furnace
  • Electric Arc Furnace
  • Heat Treating
  • Ladle Metallurgy
  • Continuous Casting
  • Ingot Casting
  • Ladle Preheating
  • Secondary Finishing
  • Surface Coating

ALUMINUM

Overview

PROCESSES

  • Mining/Primary Processing
  • Recycle/Scrap Melting
  • Aluminum Casting
  • Aluminum Smelting
  • Anode Baking
  • Bauxite Mining
  • Bauxite Refining
  • Extrusion
  • Forging
  • Heat Treating
  • Molten Handling
  • Rolling

Ladle Metallurgy: Combustion Technology

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Vaccuum Degassing
Courtesy of U.S. Steel

Equipment
Combustion Technology
Energy Consumption
Process Description
R&D Trends

Gas ladle preheating is used on the ladles and vacuum recirculation vessels in the previously discussed processes, but no commercial process uses gas heat as part of the ladle furnace operation itself.

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