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Selected Refractory Advances in Steel-Handling Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2013

B. Brezny ,
T.F. Vezza  and
T.A. Leitzel
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The iron and steel industry is constantly undergoing technological changes in improving its processes to produce the highest quality world-class steels. As a consequence, the refractories industry has been challenged to keep in lock-step with the iron and steel industry to enhance, not detract from these processes.

Certain internal combinations have enabled these refractories changes. Three expositions can display the sophistication to which refractories have advanced, so this article will explore refractories for primary steelmaking, ladles, and slide-gate devices for continuous casting.

The start-up of the first top-blown oxygen vessel at the Linz Works in Austria 37 years ago was a historical milestone in the evolution of steelmaking. At that time the open-hearth process was the dominant steelmaking technology in the world. Ten to 12 hours were required to produce one batch of steel in the open-hearth furnace, but only one hour is needed to refine the same amount of steel in a basic oxygen furnace (BOF). In a top-blown BOF all oxygen required for refining is introduced into the vessel through the oxygen lance inserted through the top of the vessel.

Toward the end of the 1960s, bottom-blown processes, such as OBM and Q-BOP, became very important in oxygen steelmaking. In the bottom-blown process, oxygen and lime are blown into the steel batch through bottom tuyeres.

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Refractories
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MRS Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 11 , November 1989 , pp. 38 - 44
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989

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