Iron and Steel Making detailed syllabus for Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the MSE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Materials Science & Engineering 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MSE 4th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of iron and steel making is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
RAW MATERIALS AND BURDEN PREPARATION 9 Iron ore classification, Indian iron ores, limestone and coking coal deposits, problems associated with Indian raw materials, Iron ore beneficiation and agglomeration, Briquetting, sintering, Nodulising and pelletizing, testing of burden materials, burden distribution on blast furnace performance.
Unit II
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Unit III
PRINCIPLES OF STEEL MAKING 9 Development of steel making processes, physico-chemical principles and kinetic aspects of steel making, carbon boil, oxygen-transport mechanism, desulphurisation, dephosphorisation, Slag Theories, slag-functions, composition, properties and theories, raw materials for steelmaking and plant layout.
Unit IV
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Unit V
LADLE METALLURGY 9 Production practice for plain carbon steels, stainless steels, tool steels and special steels, Secondary steel making processes, continuous steel casting process – Deoxidation and teeming practice. Principle, methods and their comparison, Killed, Rimmed and Capped steels, Degassing practices, ingot production, ingot defects and remedies. Recent trends in steel making technology.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Dipak Mazumdar, A First Course in Iron and Steel Making, Universities press – IIM, Series in Metallurgy and Materials Science, India, 2015.
- Tupkary, R. H.&Tupkary V.R., An Introduction to Modern Iron Making, Khanna Publishers, 4th edition, 2016 & An Introduction to Modern Steel Making, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi, 2000.
Reference Books:
- Ahindra Ghosh and Amit chatterjee, Iron Making and Steel Making – Theory and Practice, Prentice Hall of India Private Ltd., New Delhi 2008.
- Biswas, A. K., Principles of blast furnace iron making: theory and practice, SBA Publications, Kolkata, 1994.
- Bashforth, G. R., Manufacture of Iron and Steel, Vol. I, Chapman and Hall London, 1964.Bashforth, G. R., Manufacture of Iron and Steel, Vol.2, 3rd Edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1964.
- Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel, US Steel Corporation, 11th edition, 1994.
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