ECCC 2011 Technical Focus
The Conference will cover topics concerning the continuous casting of flat and long products, carbon steels, stainless steels and specialty steels:
• Formation of non metallic compounds in the solidification processes
• Metallurgy and flow control in the tundish
• Refractory material and tundish lining
• Heat scheduling and management
• CC technology
• Mould performance and initial solidification
• Mould lubrication
• Flow control in the tundish, mold and strand
• Metallurgy of ingots for forging processes
• Control of solidification structures and management of defects
• Special technologies for high performance steels
• Steel yield and productivity improvements
• Application and control of electromagnetic fields
• Metallurgical and operational results
• Quality control and detection of defects
• Solidification, segregation and high temperature behaviour
• Process development and optimisation
• Computer simulations and modelling of solidification, ingot castings and CC processes
• Automation, maintenance, on-line machine control
• New plants and updating of conventional plants
• Safety and environmental aspects
• Downstream processing of CC products and of ingots (interactions with successive working processes, i.e. rolling, forging, wiredrawing, extrusion, etc.)
• New casting processes, novel casting technologies, new products
• Product quality (surface defects, internal quality)
• In-line rolling
• Near-net-shape casting / thin and medium slabs
• Strip casting, beam blank casting
• Research in progress