ContinuousSteelCasting专业英语学习课件.ppt

An introduction to Continuous Casting Contents Introduction Solidification of Steel Description of the continuous casting process Defects of the slab, billet and bloom Introduction Continuous casting (CC) of steel has a relatively short history of only about 50 years. The CC ratio for the world steel industry, now approaching 90% of crude steel output, attained a mere 4% in 1970. Continuous casting has emerged as one of the great technological developments of the twentieth century, replacing ingot casting and blooming operations for the production of semi-finished shapes: slabs, blooms and