Metals and Alloys - I

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Dr. –Ing. Farhan Javaid

(farhan.javaid@scme.nust.edu.pk)
Office # 320 (SCME Building) +92-51-9085 5218
Steel

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Steel

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Classification of Steelmaking Processes

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Principle of Steel making

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Steel Making

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Steel Making (BOF Processes)
✓ The LD converter, named after the Austrian
towns Linz and Donawitz (a district of Leoben)
is a refined version of the
Bessemer converter where blowing of air is
replaced with blowing oxygen.

✓ Like Bessemer process, Autogenous process

and need molten pig iron as a charge material

✓ Steel scrap is used as a coolant since excess

heat is available in these processes .

✓ Refining Time: 20 – 25 Min.

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Steel Making (BOF Processes)

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Steel Making (BOF Processes)

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