Steel Making Florida Institute of Technology（炼钢佛罗里达理工学院）.pdfVIP

Steel Making • Rolling Process • Metallurgical Aspects • Material Specifications and Chemistries • Standard Mill Practices • Miscellaneous Tables Data • Elastic Section Modulus • Plastic Section Modulus • Moment of Inertia • SI Conversion Factors • Structural Shape Size Groupings for Tensile Property Classifications • Nomenclature Steel Making Modern Long Product Manufacturing Process Flow Chart Steel Making Steel Making Process Gerdau Ameristeel utilizes the Electric Arc Furnace - Continuous Casting method in the production of structural steel products. Recycled steel scrap provides the raw material for the Electric Arc Furnaces (EAF). After the scrap is loaded into the EAF, electrodes are lowered through the retractable roof into the EAF near the scrap metal charge. Electricity transfers from one electrode to the scrap metal charge, then back to another electrode. Heat to melt the scrap metal charge is developed by resistance of the metal to the flow of the massive amount of electricity and by the heat of the arc itself. Oxygen is injected into the EAF to speed up the melting process. Fluxes and alloys may be added to EAF at the end of its melt cycle or at the ladle upon tapping the EAF to establish the chemistry of the heat of steel. Molten steel is tapped from the EAF to a ladle. The ladle is then sent to a ladle metallurgy refining station (LMF). While the ladle is at LMF the chemistry of the heat of steel is verified to determine that proper alloy additions were made during the tapping of the heat. Additional alloys and fluxes may be added at the LMF if required. Homogenization of temperature and chemistry of the heat of steel is accomplished by the bubbling of inert gas through the ladle. Upon completion of LMF treatment the ladle is then sent to the continuous casting opera