Treatment of metallurgical and machine-building waste

Major – Metallurgy

Specialisation – Ferrous metallurgy

Degree – Master

Course units:

  • Types of metallurgical waste.
  • Flue gases treatment and disposal
  • Treatment and disposal of gas treatment dust and sludge
  • Treatment costs and cost effectiveness analysis considering products quality growth
  • Treatment and disposal of slag from slag dumps.
  • Waste recovery.
  • By-products production
  • Treatment and disposal of liquid smelter slag.

Activities:

  • Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
  • Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
  • Office-hours.

Total – 216 hours

Total points – 6

Laboratory classes - none

Midterm assessment - examination

New metallurgical processes

Major – Metallurgy

Specialisation – Ferrous metallurgy

Degree – Master

Course units:

  • Classification of methods of iron coke-free extraction from crude ore and anthropogenic raw materials, attraction and limitations of the methods.
  • Basic principles of iron extraction from crude ore without passing through the cast iron stage.
  • Continuous steelmaking processes: essentials, main attraction, and process flow chart.
  • Basic framework of installation of reactors (operating chambers) to a continuous steelmaking  unit.
  • Temperature mode of continuous steelmaking processes and carbon oxidation mode
  • Metal phosphorus and sulphur removal  in continuous steelmaking  units.
  • Necessity of the industrial development of casting and rolling plan complexes, their operation patterns.
  • Production of special purpose metals (with specific features).

Activities:

  • Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
  • Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
  • Office-hours.

Total – 216 hours

Total points – 6

Laboratory classes - none

Midterm assessment – examination

Theory of Casting and Steel Crystallization

Major – Metallurgy

Specialisation – Ferrous metallurgy

Degree – Master

Course units:

  • Modern theory of steel crystallisation
  • Theory of continuous casting of steel
  • Up-to-date casting and rolling plant complexes
  • Products quality

Activities:

  • Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
  • Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
  • Office-hours.

Total – 108 hours

Total points – 3

Laboratory classes - none

Midterm assessment - examination

Theory of Melting and Steel Ladle Treatment Processes

Major – Metallurgy

Specialisation – Ferrous metallurgy

Degree – Master

Course units:

  • Modern steelmaking theory and practice
  • Metal oxidation refining theory.
  • Fluid dynamics in steelmaking unit hearths.
  • Blast, slag, and heat smelting modes in top-blown converters.
  • Theory and practice of steelmaking in bottom-blown converters.
  • Steelmaking in top-and-bottom-blown converters.
  • Physical and chemical and thermal processes in metal treatment with inert gases.
  • Thermodynamics and kinetics of vacuum metal treatment.
  • Physical and chemical and thermal processes in metal treatment with slag and slag-forming mixtures.
  • Theory of metal treatment with different powdered materials.
  • Ladle treatment of liquid cast iron

Activities:

  • Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
  • Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
  • Office-hours.

Total – 216 hours

Total points – 6

Laboratory classes - none

Midterm assessment - examination

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