Advances in Steel Refining Technology and Future Prospects
پیشرفتها در فناوری پالایش فولاد و چشمانداز آینده
ABSTRACT
By the 1980s, Nippon Steel Corporation established a separated refining process based on hot-metal pretreatment,2) whereby the contents of silicon, sulfur, and phosphorus in hot metal were decreased before the decarburization in converters, using torpedo ladle cars, hot-metal ladles, or converters as the reaction vessels. Thereafter, technical developments such as the following were achieved:
separation of desulfurization from the other hot-metal pretreatment; separate processing of hot-metal dephosphorization from decarburization; development of hot-metal dephosphorization using converters as the reaction vessels and not requiring fluorine; improvement in reaction efficiency of these processes; recycled use of slag; adjustment of silicon content in hot metal in case of excessively high Si; and increase in converter capacity for hot-metal dephosphorization in converters.