Ferrous Metal Production
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The official GTU curriculum for Ferrous Metal Production (subject code BE04021041) as prescribed for Metallurgy · Semester 4 divides the course into 7 units, covering 42 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE04021041)Unit 1 Principles of Iron Making and Steel Making
- Factors related to cost
- Brief history of Iron and steel Making
Unit 2 Feasibility of reactions and chemical kinetics
- Thermodynamics and kinetics of different reactions in Iron and Steel Making
- physical chemistry of slag-metal reactions
Unit 3 Iron making
- Iron making through blast furnace route
- heat and material balance in blast furnace
- Reactions and Operations
- Developments-RAFT (Raceway Adiabatic Flame Temperature)
- Fuel injection
- Oxygen injection
- High top pressure
- High temperature blast
Unit 4 Alternate route of Iron making
- Limitations of blast furnace route
- other options for iron production Mini blast furnace –characteristics
- difference with conventional iron blast furnace Electro – Thermal Smelting Process
- Direct Reduced Iron (Sponge Iron) Technology
- Smelting Reduction (SR) technology
- Environmental considerations in Iron making Technology
Unit 5 Basic Oxygen Steel Making
- BOF practice
- Operation and Process
- Development in Conventional BOF, Oxygen Lance: Design
- Construction and Operation
- Top and Bottom Blown processes
- Its advantages and disadvantages
- Steel making primary processes - pneumatic and hearth
Unit 6 Electric Steel Making
- Details of Electric Arc Furnaces
- Sequence of EAF Operations
- Raw materials
- Single & double Slag Practice
- Slag Control
- UHP Arc Furnaces
- Arc Furnace practices for Carbon and Low Alloy Steels
- Comparison between induction Furnaces & Electric Arc furnaces
- Induction Melting furnace
Unit 7 Secondary Steel Making
- Secondary Steel Making Processes
- Ladle Furnaces (L.F.)
- Vacuum treatment of Steel
- Gases in steel
- LF-VD processes and AOD, VOD, VAD techniques
- Ladle Stirring and its Advantages
- ASEA-SKF processes- Principle and Technology
- Deoxidation – Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: Metallurgy Subject Code: BE04021041 Subject Name: Ferrous Metal Production
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