The course focuses on understanding the tundish operations during continuous casting steelmaking process. Tundish is the last metallurgical vessel through which molten metal flows before solidifying in the continuous casting mold. During the transfer of metal through the tundish, molten steel interacts with refractories, slag, and atmosphere. Thus, understanding about the operations inside the tundish and the methods to model these operations help in making effort towards increasing the productivity in terms of good quality end product and decrease in rejection of the products due to different defects.
INTENDED AUDIENCE : Mechanical/Metallurgical/Production
PREREQUISITES : Fluid mechanics, heat transfer, numerical methods, manufacturing processes
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Steel Industries like SAIL, Tata Steel, Jindal Steel etc.
Modeling of tundish steelmaking process in continuous casting
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and NPTEL via Swayam
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Overview
Syllabus
COURSE LAYOUT
Week 1 : Introduction to continuous casting tundish, Types of tundish, tundish metallurgy
Week 2 : Concept of physical modeling, Similarity and dimensional analysis
Week 3 : Stimulus response techniques, Residence time distribution curves
Week 4 : Fluid flow fundamentals, Navier stokes equations
Week 5 : Modeling turbulent flow, Turbulence models
Week 6 : Review of heat and mass transfer models, Numerical methods for solving governing equations
Week 7 : Modeling study of fluid flow and mixing inside tundish
Week 8 : Modeling study of Grade intermixing and inclusion floatation behavior in tundish
Taught by
Prof. Pradeep Kumar Jha
