The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel, 11th Edition, Casting

Now available as a casebound book, the Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel, 11th Edition, Casting Volume contains a comprehensive treatment of continuous casting, including all aspects of billet, bloom, beam blank, and thin and thick slab casting. Emphasis is placed on the fundamental metallurgical issues that govern proper machine design and operation. Significant attention is also given to operational practices that can lead to defect formations; the interrelationship between steelmaking, casting and rolling; grade and alloying element effects on casting; the importance of maintenance; design of various casters; and future casting processes

Preface
About the Editor
About the Authors
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 : The Nature of Ironmaking
Chapter 2 : Fundamentals of Iron and Steelmaking
Chapter 3 : Steel Plant Refractories
Chapter 4 : Ironmaking Refractory Systems
Chapter 5 : Production and Use of Industrial Gases for Iron and Steelmaking
Chapter 6 : Steel Plant Fuels and Water Requirements
Chapter 7 : Manufacture of Metallurgical Coke and Recovery of Coal Chemicals
Chapter 8 : Iron Ores
Chapter 9 : The Blast Furnace Facility and Equipment
Chapter 10 : The Manufacture of Pig Iron in the Blast Furnace
Chapter 11 : Direct Reduction and Smelting Processes

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