20th IAS STEEL CONFERENCE 2014

20th IAS STEEL CONFERENCE 2014
TECHNICAL SESSIONS (Ironmaking, Steelmaking, Rolling and Steel Products)
FINAL PROGRAM
5 WEDNESDAY
ROOM A
08:00 a.m.
ROOM C
ROOM B
07:00 a.m.
ROOM D
Registration Opens
STEELMAKING EAF
Increasing EAF energy efficiency and productivity by bottom
gas purging. M. Kirschen, K. Zettl (RHI, Austria); W. Cassete
(RHI, Brazil).
SECONDARY METALLURGY
IRONMAKING BF
MAINTENANCE
Influence of the post pressing technique over tap hole mud Applications of the reliability engineering in implantations of
properties. S. Camelli, M. Rimoldi, A. Vazquez (Instituto
capital project. J. da Silva, J. Mendes, R. Sole (Fundação
Argentino de Siderurgia, Argentina), P. Marinelli, O. Gómez, Gorceix, Brazil); C. Spagnó, C. Costa (Reliasoft, Brazil).
G. Maggi (Ternium Siderar, Argentina).
08:30 a.m. Continuous melting process operation. L. Picco, A. Manzini,
M. Consigli, G. Franco (Acindar Grupo ArcelorMittal,
Argentina).
New RH degassing station at Ternium Siderar: Innovations
and performance results. R. Donayo, F. Jorro, A. Gomez, J.
Usart, E. Lagos, M. Labadie, M. Aguirre (Ternium Siderar,
Argentina).
09:00 a.m. A new direct purging system for electric arc furnace. R.
Borges, A. Figueiredo Jr, R. Baitz, E. Gonzaga, A. da Rocha
(Magnesita Refratários, Brazil); E. Cabral, A. Murari (Villares
Metals, Brazil).
Effect of vacuum treatment on liquid steel inclusion
Ternium siderar blast furnace 1 current campaign
population. C. Capurro, G. Cerrutti, C. Cicutti, A. Bilancieri, P. performance. S. Margot, G. Cegna, C. Partemio, O. Lingiardi,
Traini (TenarisSiderca, Argentina); C. Liz (Tenaris Dalmine,
R. Musante, G. Puertas (Ternium Siderar, Argentina).
Italy).
09:30 a.m. Latest results of the goodfellow EFSOP® implementation at
Tenaris Siderca, Argentina. J. Sabugal, F. Diaz ( Tenaris
Siderca Argentina, Argentina); I. Todorovic, A. Vazquez
(Tenova Goodfellow, Canada).
Vacuum treatment of molten steel: RH (Rurhstahl Heraeus)
versus VTD (Vacuum Tank Degasser). C. Schrade
(Technometal, Germany); Z. Zulhan (Institut Teknologi
Bandung, Indonesia).
10:00 a.m.
On the root causes of variability of the blast furnace process. No destructive characterization of stainles steels using
M. Geerdes (Geerdes Advies, The Netherlands).
magnetic barkhausen noise and magneto acoustic emission.
M. Astudillo, N. Nuñez, M. Pumarega, J. Ruzante (Comisión
Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina); G. Sánchez
(Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF),
Argentina); L. Padovese (Escola Politécnica de La Universidad
de San Pablo, Brazil).
Polymer e-chains – systems of energy provision solutions for
cranes and material handling. M. Borisenko (Borintech,
Argentina).
Refractory castables applied by shotcrete in the programmed Crane 3d vision. C. Solari, S. Soria (Antares – Tecnocas,
repair of Ternium Siderar blast furnace 1. M. Rimoldi, N.
Argentina).
Marsiglia, S. Camelli (Instituto Argentino de Siderurgia,
Argentina); J. Mirabelli, P. Marinelli (Ternium Siderar,
Argentina).
Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. The use of DRI in a consteel EAF process. F. Memoli (Tenova
Core, United States); J. Jones (Continuous Improvement
Experts, United States); F. Picciolo (Cape Cate, South Africa);
N. Palamini (Tenova, Italy).
Steel cleanness caracterization for different process
conditions at Ternium Siderar. G. Cerrutti, C. Capurro, C.
Cicutti (TenarisSiderca, Argentina); G. Ebri, A. Martín, S.
Alzari, J. Pérez, A. Gómez (Ternium Siderar, Argentina); S.
Sylvestre Begnis (Instituto Argentino de Siderurgia,
Argentina).
Evolution of operational control at TKCSA # 01 blast furnace. Mechanical integrity – as part of safety plan for cranes. H.
A. Hirano, B. da Silva, E. dos Santos, V. Ramos (ThyssenKrupp, Lozano (Ternium México, Mexico).
Brazil).
11:00 a.m. Improving steelmaking process through applying advance
sensor techncology. S. Vazquez (Tenova Goodfellow,
Canada).
Physical ladle tracking. F. Ahualli, J. Sagasti (Australtek,
United States); S. Meyer, F. Memoli (Tenova Core, United
States).
Control technique for mixing small coke at blast furnace with Safety references areas in Ternium planos Guerrero and
center feed type bell-less top. Y. Kashihara, A. Murao, M.
largos norte. G. Elizondo, J. Goncalves (Ternium México,
Kuwabara, N. Ishiwata, M. Sato (JFE Steel Corporation,
Mexico).
Japan).
11:30 a.m.
KEYNOTE LECTURE: "RH degassing process" (Dr. Sergio Costa, Brazil).
12:00 p.m.
12:30 p.m.
Experimental visualization of the continuous tapping inside
the blast furnace hearth with two casthouses. S. Sylvestre
Begnis (Instituto Argentino de Siderurgia, Argentina)
(Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional San
Nicolás); A. Mariotti (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional Facultad Regional San Nicolás, Argentina).
Analisys of use of regenerative burners in rotary hearth
furnaces. R. Lillo, P. Marino (TenarisSiderca, Argentina).
Blast furnace cooling stave design. M. Smith, J. Fletcher, R.
Harvey, R. Horwood (Siemens Vai Metal Technologies,
United Kindom).
Estimation of end of life of rotary calcining kilns by
microstructural degradation by means of metallographic
replicas and infrared thermography. F. Dutto, G.Berardi, L.
Boccanera, E. Wolter, C. Parodi, A. Corso (Ternium Siderar,
Argentina).
Lunch
02:00 p.m. Danieli service – The new concept for reva.m.ps in
STEELMAKING BOF
steelplants. Uwe Wilhelm, Matthew Swales (Danieli,
Slab yard management. N. Vieguer, F. Glaeser, P. Lagae, L.
Switzerland); Max Schmitt, Marco Di Giacomo (Danieli, Italy). Arlenghi (Siemens, Argentina).
IRONMAKING DRI
Development of a double layer lining for DRI production in
rotary kilns: Energy savings and wear resistance. B.
Kesselheim, C. Feliciano, H. Jansen, L. Hackenberger, T.
Schemmel (Refratechnik Steel, Germany); K. Kassau
(Refratechnik Cement, Germany).
STEEL PRODUCTS
PH behaviour in acidic zinc electroplating baths. P. Pary
(CIDEPINT, CICPBA-CONICET, Argentina y Universidad de La
Plata, Argentina), W. Egli (CIDEPINT, CICPBA-CONICET,
Argentina); S. Bruno (TenarisSiderca, Argentina); H. Lazzarino
(Ternium Siderar, Argentina).
02:30 p.m. The fully automated meltshop: Better safety, control, and
Scrap vs. Hot metal. Flexible modular furnace and IBOF:
savings. J. Vasquez, F. Memoli (Tenova Core, United States). Tenova answers to flexible technologies demand. N. Rondini
(Tenova, Italy); D. Masoero, B. Virgili, D. Zuliani, V. Scipolo
(Tenova Goodfellow, Canada); C. Cattalini (Tenova Industrial
Technologies, China).
Development of a methodology for determining the
percentage of coating around the pellet by automatic image
analysis. H. Simões, A. Bailon, R. da Silva, A. Meschiatti, V.
Passigatti, T. Doellinger (Samarco Mineração, Brazil).
Determination of brightener and leveler additives in alkaline
non-cyanide zinc plating baths. F. Manganiello, W. Egli
(CIDEPINT – (CICBA-CONICET), Argentina); S. Bruno, M.
Zapponi (TenarisSiderca, Argentina).
Thermodynamic software applied in study of hot metal
Technology in operation and practice: An overview of new
dephosphorization. F. Broseghini, H. de Oliveira, R. Sampaio, Midrex® projects and technology advancements. A. Elliot, C.
J. de Oliveira (Ifes, Brazil); E. de Oliveira (Villares Metals,
Ravenscroft (Midrex Technologies, United States).
Brazil).
The influence of surface topography on the tribological
behaviour of steel sheets in high speed friction tests. J.
Insausti, A. Lucaioli, L. Iurman, D. Ziegler, M. Puccinelli, G.
Bergé, C. Schwindt (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina).
03:00 p.m. Optimization of building ventilation for Gerdau beaumont
meltshop using physical fluid dyna.m.ic modeling. J. Belous
(Bender Corporation, United States); R. Anawate (Gerdau
Beaumont Steel Mill, United States).
03:30 p.m.
04:00 p.m. Optimized heat recovery system for eaf waste gasses. C.
Born, R. Granderath (Tenova Re Energy, Germany); M. Marti
(Tenova, Italy).
Coffee Break
Hot metal desulphurization using CaO, MgO, SiO2, CaF2,
Impact of pellet size in distribution in productivity. C.
Na2O based slag. H. de Oliveira, F. Broseghini, R. Sampaio, J. Giacolla, S. Medina, V. Martin (Acindar Grupo ArcelorMittal,
de Oliveira (IFES – Propemm, Brazil).
Argentina).
04:30 p.m. Evolution and development of gunning masses application Marble waste applied in synthetics slags at the steel
and fetling application on the EAF. P. Marcos, J. Rodríguez, R. desulfurization process. J. Coleti, F. Grillo, D. Espinosa, J.
Racedo (Magnesitas Navarras, Spain).
Tenório (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil); J. de Oliveira
(Federal Institute of Espirito Santo, Brazil).
Improvement of coating to the iron ore pellet at the Direct
Reduction Plant of Tenaris-Siderca. A. Grazziutti, H.
Nuccetelli, D. Guido, F. Ajargo (TenarisSiderca, Argentina).
05:00 p.m. Development of the direct evacuation control system for
modern electric arc furnace. J. Belous, M. Marz (Bender
Corporation, United States).
Generation of recyclable products from LD slag. P. Prasad, R. Performance of the new alloys in DRI processes. L. Quaranta,
Golani, T. Venugopalan (Tata Steel, India); P. Chaudhary (CSIR-P. Imízcoz, P. Cardín (Schmidt-Clemens Spain, Spain).
National Metallurgical Laboratory, India).
05:30 p.m.
New wagons for slabs transportation. B. García, R. Ortega, D.
Martín, S. Chiavón, F. Reeves (Ternium Siderar, Argentina).
Developing high toughness in a bainite 38MnV7 steel. J.
Cabrera, J. Calvo, (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña,
Spain, Fundación CTM Centro Tecnológico, Spain); A.
Hernández (Fundación CTM Centro Tecnológico, Spain); L.
Rancel, M. Gómez, S. Medina (Centro Nacional de
Investgaciones Metalúrgicas CENIM-CSIC, Spain).
Simulation of railway logistics SN-EDA. D. Staniscia (Ternium
Siderar, Argentina).
6 THURSDAY
ROOM A
07:00 a.m.
08:00 a.m.
ROOM B
ROOM C
Registration Opens
STEELMAKING CONTINUOUS CASTING
Latest improvements in continuous caster technology for
long products. R. Buffoli, M. Schmitt (Danieli & C. Officine
Meccaniche, Italy).
08:30 a.m. Steel level measurement in the continuous caster mould. J.
Usart, C.Ferrato, D. Cerutti, R. López, G. Digresia (Ternium
Siderar, Argentina).
RAW MATERIAL
ROLLING
Physical quality control of sinter for blast furnace. C. Galiazzi, Characterization of extruded and rotary tube pierced
(process Mannesmann) semielaboratedcase of titanium
E. dos Santos, W. Silveira, L. Ribeiro, R. Silva, B. da Silva
alloys. C. Bunte (Fabricación de Aleaciones Especiales,
(ThyssenKrupp, Brazil).
Argentina), (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad
Regional Buenos Aires, Argentina), (Universidad de San
Martín - Instituto de Tecnología “Jorge Sábato”, Argentina);
M. Gomez (Universidad de San Martín. Instituto de
Tecnología “Jorge Sábato”, Argentina).
Diagnosis of high dust generation through dissection studies Parametric analysis of the electric resistance heating for the
of pellet bed. S. Hota, S. Reddy, U. Chakraborti, A. Kumar
welded tube manufacturing process. C. Cincunegui, P.
(Tata Steel Limited, India).
Marino, D. Tieppo, E. Martínez (TenarisSiderca, Argentina).
09:00 a.m. Improvement in the continuous casting process in Siderca. I. Paul Wurth sinter plant technology. J. Santa.m.aría, G.
Ristorto, M. Vazquez, F. Fuhr, J. Alicandro, J. Sabugal, A.
Degorce, F. de Morais, K. Kinzel (Paul Wurth, Luxembourg).
Campos (TenarisSiderca, Argentina).
Migration of AGC (Automatic Gauge Control) of cold rolling
mill because of obsolescence. E. Bossi, D. Capucchio, J.
Carrara, R. Colella, E. Kemerer, D. Oldani, J. Oliverio, H. Rosa,
M. Traglia, C. Vecchiarto (Ternium Siderar, Argentina); J.
Massera (a.m.I GE, Argentina); M. Szpetch, J. Oliverio (TESIS,
Argentina).
09:30 a.m. Recent developments in calcium treatment in steelmaking: a Characterization and post mortem study of Al2O3-SiO2 bricks
source of technical efficiency and cost-savings. S. Gérardin, used in oven soles of coke batteries. M. Rimoldi, S. Camelli,
A. Bustos, C. Lenoir, M. Schatz (AFFIVAL SAS, France).
A. Vazquez (Instituto Argentino de Siderurgia, Argentina); D.
Beltran, P. Marinelli (Ternium Siderar, Argentina).
Tribological behavior of hot rolling mills under high
temperature conditions. W. Tuckart, G. Montesi (Universidad
Nacional del Sur, Argentina); E. Ubici, A. Esteban, H.
Fernandez (Ternium Siderar, Argentina); D. Cavaleri, W.
Chiapparoli (Instituto Argentino de Siderurgia, Argentina).
10:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. F-free mould powders for low carbon steel slab casting technological para.m.eters and industrial trials. M. Pereira, S.
Freitas, G. Ferreira, W. Moreira, D. Jung, M. Ferreira
(Stollberg do Brasil, Brazil); E. Nohara (Universidade de
Taubaté, Brazil); J. Klug (Universidade Federal do Ceará,
Brazil).
Automatic stamping charger - stamping of blended coal The role of thickness gauges in cold mill process
theoreticalstudy and practice analysis at TKCSA. Y. Junqueira, optimization. C. Burnett (Thermo Fisher Scientific, United
L. Pinto, R. Coelho (ThyssenKrupp, Brazil). J. Clemente (PISA, States); C. DeJesus (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Mexico).
Brazil).
11:00 a.m. Analysis of mold heat transfer during the production of
continuous casting round bars. C. Capurro, G. Cerrutti, C.
Cicutti (TenarisSiderca, Argentina); L. Santini, A. Martín, E.
Benavidez, E. Brandaleze (Universidad Tecnológica NacionalFacultad Regional San Nicolás, Argentina).
“State-of-the-art” coking technologies. Challenging
emissions at the service of the environment: A practical
brasilian exa.m.ple. A. Esposito, J. Krull, A. Molinari (Paul
Wurth Italia, Italy); W. Kern (DMT & Co., Germany); H. Silva
Junior (Paul Wurth, Brazil).
11:30 a.m.
Charcoal partial incorporation on a medium volatile coal for Latest developments on equipment to improve safety and
laboratorial coke production. D. Orellana, B. Flores, I. Flores, working conditions on wire-rod mills. A. Zanon, N. Ferreira
J. Pohlmann, C. Barbieri, V. Zymla, E. Osório, A.Vilela
(Danieli, Italy).
(Laboratório de Siderurgia, Brazil).
12:00 p.m.
KEYNOTE LECTURE: "Application of
physical and mathematical modelling
as steelmaking process engineering
tool" (Dr. Jesús Barreto, Mexico).
12:30 p.m.
Leveling process optimization of hot rolled strip at Serviacero
III production center – Ternium Siderar.
M.Buquet, N. Marraccini (Ternium Siderar - Planta Serviacero
III, Argentina); J.Moriconi, M. Musachi, J.Sanguedolce, N.
Acevedo (Ternium Siderar - Planta General Savio, Argentina);
D. Cavaleri, W.Chiapparoli (Instituto Argentino De Siderurgia,
Argentina).
Siemens development of the ironmaking furnace hot blast
Enhanced accuracy of descaling nozzle arrangements with
system. M. Geach, M. Fletcher, G. Brown (Siemens Vai Metal new, complementary measurement methods. J. Frick, A.
Technologies, United Kindom).
Stein (Lechler, Germany).
Lunch
02:00 p.m. Characterization and analysis of titanium nitrides formation
during the solidification of steels. C. Cicutti, C. Capurro
(TenarisSiderca, Argentina).
Development of a new alloy for rolls in a pilot plant and the
manufacturing in the industrial plant. J. Ferreño, J. Encina,
(Fundación ITMA, Spain).
02:30 p.m. Tundish flux practice: Comparison between rice hull ash and Evaluation of metallurgical parameters of pellets and lump
fly-ash based tundish flux considering some relevant
ore for blast furnace. F. von Krüger, J. Mendes, F. Araújo, R.
thermodynamic properties. M. Pereira, C. Monteiro Filho, S. Sole (Fundação Gorceix, Brazil).
Freitas, M. Ferreira, D. Jung (Stollberg do Brasil, Brazil); J.
Klug (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil); N. Heck
(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).
Repair of mill stand geometry by resin technology. F.
Braidotti, M. Schmitt (Danieli, Italy); D. Hobson (Danieli,
United Kindom).
03:00 p.m. R&d experiences within the fra.m.ework of agreement
Maximising steel waste in sinter making. M. Sinha, S. Nistala, New revolutionary rolling stands for long products rolling
between Acindar and UTN-FRSN. G. Ca.m.pomar, M. Caggioli A. Dubey, S. Sinha (Tata Steel, India).
mills. M. Tomba, N. Tomba, A. Fontanini, M. Zuccato (PERT,
Italy).
(Acindar Grupo ArcelorMittal, Argentina); M. Silvestrini, M.
Roberti (Universidad Tecnologica Nacional - Facultad
Regional San Nicolas, Argentina).
03:30 p.m.
04:00 p.m. Looking for the best flow configuration in the new Siderar
continuous casting machine using water modelling. S.
Sylvestre Begnis (Instituto Argentino de Siderurgia,
Argentina); G. Di Gresia (Ternium Siderar, Argentina).
Coffee Break
Sinter production from iron and steel making residues. V.
Esw's research and development a combination of trials and
Ca.m.pos, F. de Morais (Paul Wurth, Brazil); U. de Oliveira, D. simulation. M. Brandner, T. Nylen, L. Elizondo, T. Trickl, A.
Júnior (ECOSTEEL, Brazil).
Paar (Eisenwerk-Sulzau-Werfen R&E Weinberger AG,
Austria).
04:30 p.m. Tundish turbulent phenomena effect on the bulk steel flow Stabilization of first CDQ in Tata Steel, Ja.m.shedpur, India. B. The effect of thermal fatigue on the work roll life in hot steel
dyna.m.ics in a slab mould caster. J. Barreto, S. Hernández, B. Biswas, A. Kumar, S. Singh, R. Sahu, P. Mishra, S. Haldar (Tata rolling. A. Tremea, S. Ricco (INNSE Cilindri, Italy); M. Pellizzari
Lara, R. León, E. Gutiérrez (Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia, Steel, India).
(University of Trento, Italy).
Mexico).
05:00 p.m. Slag emusification control during ladle change and tundish
filling operation using a disipative ladle shroud. S.
Hernández, J. Barreto, E. Gutiérrez (Instituto Tecnológico de
Morelia, Mexico); R. Morales, A. Huerta (Instituto Politécnico
Nacional–Esiqie, Mexico).
05:30 p.m. New ladle slide gate - R series. M. dos Santos, F. Silva
(Magnesita Refratários, Brazil); Y. Nobuyuki, I. Toshihiro
(Krosaki Harima Corporation, Japan).
POSTER SESSION (IRONMAKING)
> Evaluation of coal particle size influence on coking coals properties: a coal particle size cuts characterization. I. Flores, D. Orellana, E. Osório, A. Vilela (Laboratório de Siderurgia, Brazil); G. da Silva (Gerdau, Brazil); V. Zymla (Laboratoire Génie des Procédés et Matériaux,
Brazil).
> Effect of coke in the induration process of iron ore pelets with magnetite-61 pct WT of hematite. N. Martínez, M. Trejo, M. Román (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional Unidad Saltillo, Mexico); R. Estrella (Instituto de
Investigaciones Metalúrgicas, Mexico); R. Esparza, M. Villareal (Altos Hornos de México, Mexico).
POSTER SESSION (CONTINUOUS CASTING)
> Description of inclusion size for a LCAK steel with the generalized extreme value distribution. E. Castro, M. Herrera, M. Castro, A. Ruiz (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico), M. Lopez, F. Castro (Ternium México,
Mexico).
> Cleanliness evaluation of inclsuions during the refining process. A. Torres, M. Trejo, M. Castro, E. Cedeño. A. Valencia (Centro de Investigación de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional Unidad Saltillo, Mexico).