Control of inclusions in RH degassing processes

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7210-PR-009

Project closed

Start date 1 July 1997

End date 31 December 2000

Funded under

• Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Total cost € 1 501 500,00

EU contribution € 900 900,00

Coordinated by

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES DE LA SIDERURGIE FRANÇAISE
France

Objective

The main aim of this project is to develop, test and validate modelling techniques for the evaluation of RH vacuum degasser performance with respect to steel cleanness. Principally, physical model and plant results on a wide variety of steel grade (ULC and high carbon steels) will be used to validate computational fluid dynamic models which will take into account coalescence of inclusions, thermal effects, thermodynamics of inclusions and dynamic interactions between melt/inclusions/gaseous phases. It will thus be possible to fully predict the range of inclusion composition and the level of cleanness of the steel with respect to treatment conditions.

Programme(s)

• ECSC-STEEL C - Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Topic(s)

• C2 - Secondary steelmaking

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES DE LA SIDERURGIE FRANÇAISE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Voie Romaine - BP 320 ; 57214 MAIZIERES-LES-METZ CEDEX ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (3)

British Steel plc

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: TS6 6UB Middlesbrough
• Total cost: No data

CENTRE DE RECHERCHES METALLURGIQUES

Belgium

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Rue Ernest Solvay, 11 ; 4000 LIEGE
• Total cost: No data

Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute eV

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Sohnstraße 65 ; 40237 Düsseldorf
• Total cost: No data