Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals. Alloys

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My Speciality
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My Speciality
There are many faculties in the South Urals State University. But those students who have chosen the career in metallurgy study at the Metallurgical department. I’m a student of the Metallurgical D

Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals. Alloys
  It is known that metals are very important in our life. Metals have the greatest importance for industry. About two thirds of all elements found in the earth are metals. It is diffi

Iron and Iron Ores
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Iron and Iron Ores
Iron is the only metal that can be found in almost every part of the world. It’s the fourth element in abundance on the earth, being exceeded by oxygen, silicon and aluminum. It is the cheapest of

Grey Cast Iron
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Grey Cast Iron
  Grey cast iron is one of the most valued of cast metals. It may be made by melting pig iron and scrap in the cheapest of melting processes, the cupola, and then cast into sand molds

Casting
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Casting
Casting is the oldest method of forming metals. Basically it consists of melting and pouring liquid metal into a cavity of the desired size and shape and allowing the metal to solidify. There are n

Metals and Non–Metals
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Metals and Non–Metals
Among the more obvious distinctions between different kinds of elements is that which divides metals and nonmetals. Metals are distinguished from nonmetals by their high conductivity for heat and e

Corrosion
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Corrosion
It has long been known that metals can undergo changes in which they lose their characteristic properties; in most cases, the metal ceases to be an element, and becomes a compound. Iron exposed to

The Iron Blast Furnace
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The Iron Blast Furnace
  Pig iron is one of the most important materials produced in the metallurgical industry. It is generally produced from the iron ore by chemical reduction process of iron conducted in

Bessemer Converter
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Bessemer Converter
  Molten pig iron, gaseous oxygen and steel scrap are the main constituents for making steel in the converter. Pig iron contains carbon, manganese, phosphorus, sulphur and silicon in

Open-Hearth Furnace
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Open-Hearth Furnace
The phenomenal success of the Bessemer process attracted many other inventors to the study of new and improved methods of steelmaking. The only process which was destined to become a rival of the B

Electric Furnace
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Electric Furnace
  Numerous types of furnaces utilizing electric current as the source of heat have been developed by a large number of investigators, but relatively few types have survived as practic

Continuous Casting of Steel
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Continuous Casting of Steel
Continuous casting as at present applied to the production of steel may be defined as a process in which liquid metal is poured into an open-ended mould, from the lower end of which a partially sol

Types of Mills
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Types of Mills
The three principal types of rolling mills used for the rolling of steel are referred to as "two-high", "three-high", and "four-high mills". As the names indicate, the

The Physics and Chemistry of Metallurgy
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The physics and chemistry of metallurgy
  Metallurgy is a science dealing with the constitution, structure and properties of metals and alloys, and the processes by which they are obtained from ores and adapted for the use

Relation of Metallurgy to Physics and Chemistry
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Relation of Metallurgy to Physics and Chemistry
In principle, steelmaking involves only a relatively, outwardly simple steps. Principal iron ores consist of combinations of iron with oxygen (iron oxides), mixed with varying percentages of useles

Protection of Steel from Corrosion
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Protection of Steel from Corrosion
  Everybody knows how widely steel and iron products are used. But almost in all applications regardless of the environment, these products are coated by some means in order to preven

Induction Furnaces. Puddling Furnaces.
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Induction Furnaces. Puddling Furnaces
Induction Furnaces. Induction furnaces are of two types – the coreless high-frequency type and the cored units which operate at low frequency. Principles of operation of both units are simil

Problems of Automation of Blast Furnace
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Problems of Automation of Blast Furnace
In the course of the past few years, a considerable amount of time and money has been spent studying the blast furnace process, and discussing with the operators some of the problems associated wit

Hot Working and Hot Working Processes
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Hot Working and Hot Working Processes
  Hot working entails plastic deformation of metals at temperatures where strain hardening does not occur. Hot working is done for two reasons: to shape metal into useful objects; and

Cold Working and Cold Working Processes
  Cold working drastically changes the mechanical properties of metals, the most important being increase in strength and hardness with a simultaneous reduction of ductility. The meta

Oxy-fuel combustion for reheat furnaces
Steel Times International APRIL 2002   The use of oxy-fuel burners in reheat furnaces greatly reduces the volume of flue gas produced which in turn leads to lower h

Heat transfer.
The total heat transfer occurring within a furnace can be broken down into four main areas: – radiant heat transfer from the flame to the product; – radiant heat transfer from the

Benefits of oxy-fuel combustion.
The main benefits of oxy-fuel can be summarized as: Higher furnace productivity. As a result of the improved thermal efficiency of the furnace and the improved heat transfer charact

The European Steel Industry and Climate Change Legislation
  While Europe chastises the USA for not signing up to the Kyoto Protocol to limit CO2 emissions, the US argues that – taking carbon sinks into the equation – Europe is a b

Energy efficiency.
The steel industry's generation of carbon dioxide (CO2) is mainly associated with the chemical reaction of carbon and iron ore in blast furnaces producing molten iron, which is then conv

Energy taxation.
The European Commission proposed in March 1997 a Directive for restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products – COM(97) 30 – and various alternatives have been discussed

Emission trading.
On 23 October 2001 the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for greenhouse gas emission trading within the E

Mill roll lubrication to cut costs
  A 15% reduction in mill power consumption, a 10% increase in work roll life and a 20% reduction of mill load are the result of employing hot mill roll lubricants. The correct sel

Cold rolling.
Different parameters are required for the cold rolling mill, where the selection of a robust product will pay for itself in terms of maximizing speeds and strip quality, increasing roll life and ex

Uzbekistan woos foreign investors
  Uzbek iron and steel works Joint Stock Manufacturing Amalgamation (Uzmetcombinat) was established in 1994 through a merger of the Uzbek metallurgy plant, the Shirin machine building

СПИСОК СОКРАЩЕНИЙ
1. General Electric Co. – Company 2. Ltd (Britain) - limited responsibility – корпорация из нескольких владельцев и вице президентов 3. OD. – outside diameter 4. ID. – ins