Ladle Metallurgy: Combustion Technology

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Ladle Metallurgy: Combustion Technology

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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

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.