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Fluidic Coherent Jet Injector and Multi-Directional Fluidic Burner: Operating Experience (Room 406)

06 May 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Megha Jampani
Praxair Inc.’s fluidic CoJet® injector and its OPTIFIRE™ fluidic burner allow EAF operators to deflect the flame of the burner in a direction of ch... More...

Energy Efficiency Gains With Heat Recovery and ORC in High-Performance EAFs (Room 406)

06 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Ilaria Peretti
Recovering EAF offgas waste heat is a key to improve energy efficiency in electric steelmaking. EAF heat recovery with evaporation cooling and stea... More...

Intelligent Melting System at Kroman Çelik EAF: Performance Results During One Year of Operation (Room 406)

06 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Damiano Patrizio ; Manuele Piazza ; Marco Ansoldi ; Orhan Kuran
The present work analyzes the results achieved in the Kroman Çelik EAF one year after the installation of the Q-MELT automatic EAF system and the r... More...

Vibration Analysis on Electrode Column in AC EAF Based on Local Force Densities Developed by Rapid Change of Current and Arc Stability (Room 406)

06 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Anil Seemon ; Bipin Richharia ; Juan Ramon Fernandez ; Tamil Selvan Nagarajan
The EAF has one of the most non-linear loads, with extreme power that can induce severe power quality problems in the network. The nature of the lo... More...

Artificial Intelligence Applications in Production Planning at the Big River Steel Self-Learning Factory (Room 406)

07 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Franck Adjogble ; Jochen Neuer ; Klaus Ptaszyk ; Wilfried Runde
Big River Steel, located in Osceola, Ark., USA, is a self-learning factory. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) helps to further optimize the p... More...

Using Thyristor-Controlled Series Reactors to Improve EAF Productivity and Lower Operating Costs at North Star BlueScope Steel LLC (Room 406)

07 May 19
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Jeremy Cargill ; Michael Campbell ; Rex McClanahan ; Tom Ma ; Weldon Hull
The installation of an advanced, dynamically controlled series reactor system has enabled North Star BlueScope Steel (NSBSL) to run their 195-ton, ... More...

A Complete System to Monitor and Optimize All Aspects of Graphite Electrode Usage in an EAF Meltshop (Room 406)

07 May 19
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Tony Klippel
This paper describes a complete system to monitor and optimize all aspects of graphite electrode usage in an EAF meltshop from a major steel produc... More...

Application of a Man-Less, On-Demand Immersion Optical Temperature Measurement Device at the EAF (Room 406)

07 May 19
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Alex England ; Bob LaRoy ; Brent Walchuk ; Jeremiah Fredrick ; Paul Turner ; Tim Bosserman
Reliable temperature control is critical in the operation of any electric arc furnace (EAF). Typically, temperature measurements are made with disp... More...

Operational Results of the Inteco Burner System at Nucor Steel-Berkeley (Room 406)

07 May 19
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Daniel Holmes ; Martin Leber
In August 2017, Nucor Steel–Berkeley, located near Charleston, S.C., installed INTECO PTI LLC JetBOxes and supersonic sidewall burners on their fur... More...

Performance of the Electromagnetic Stirring System Applied to the Flat Bath Consteel® Operation (Room 406)

07 May 19
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Anders F. Lehman ; Andrea Grasselli ; Joakim Z. Andersson ; Lidong Teng
The application of the electromagnetic stirring system ArcSave® to the Consteel® process allows to control the liquid steel movement in flat bath o... More...

Effect of Slag on Arc Characteristics in the EAF (Room 406)

07 May 19
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): PK Ghosh
From the observations of a large number of heats in respect of energy input rate, energy consumption and electrode consumption for identical scrap ... More...

Numerical Investigation of Decarburization Reaction Characteristics in an Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking Process (Room 406)

07 May 19
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Armin Silaen ; Chenn Zhou ; Guangwu Tang ; Kyle Vanover ; Yu Wang ; Yuchao Chen
The EAF steelmaking process is a complex, high-temperature physico-chemical process in which gas, solid, liquid, and arc plasma coexist, and moment... More...

Reducing OpEx on Pre-Heating the EAF by Analyzing Heat Balance and Gas Concentration (Room 406)

07 May 19
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Katsuichiro Fusamae ; Kenji Kamite ; Ryozo ISHIKAWA ; Susumu Matsubara
In order to reduce the OpEx of the EAF, we installed ECOARC™ (a scrap pre-heating EAF made by SPCO) in 2015. To maximize the thermal efficiency of ... More...

Increasing the Safety and Reliability of the EAF: Installation of the EAF Roof Designed and Manufactured With Spray-Cooled Technology (Room 406)

08 May 19
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Fredrik Boman ; Logan Wilson ; Markus Abel
In order to increase the availability and safety of its 100-ton EAF, the Swedish steel producer Ovako Hofors decided to replace its tubular water-c... More...

Leak Detection in Water-Cooled Circuits: A Novel, Minimally Invasive Approach to Monitor Pipeline and Panel Integrity (Room 406)

08 May 19
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Marco Luccini ; Vittorio Scipolo
When a cooling circuit fracture happens within a steel furnace, a water leak can occur, posing a serious safety risk. It is essential to monitor th... More...

Zinc Production From EAF Dust at Cape Gate — A Case Study (Room 406)

08 May 19
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Tracks: Electric Steelmaking

Speaker(s): Edoardo Guerrini ; Federico Picciolo ; Jonathan Nielsen ; Massimo Maccagni
The EZINEX® process to produce zinc from the direct treatment of EAFD was developed by Engitec Technologies in Italy. This process is a hydrometall... More...