Objective
The object of the research proposal is the purging plugs for ladle Ar blowing. The objective is to improve the plugs selection and management in order to enhance their performances.
The work programme is based on a multidisciplinary approach that involves steel maker, purging plugs producer and researcher working on refractory materials and technology and on measuring methodologies and system applied to the steel-making environment.
The activity forecast both on plant and laboratory trials. Trials on plant want to characterise standard and enhanced ladle practices, standard and new purging plugs, with respect the plugs performances. During these trials plug refractory wear measurements are carried out.
Laboratory trials forecast refractory investigations to characterise materials transformations during the use of the plugs and to better establish the correlations between process and wear of the refractory. Overall results will be used to set a model of general application of the correlations between the process and the behaviour of the plugs.
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ROMA
Italy