Category

Theme images by Storman. Powered by Blogger.
Best viewed in Google Chrome

Labels

Labels

Advertisement

Popular Posts

Services

Showing posts with label Research and Development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Research and Development. Show all posts

Central Salt and Marine Chemical Research Institute, India expects an US patent for developing a technology of extracting Refractory Grade Magnesia from Sea Water

- No comments
16-Aug-2010
An indigenous technology for extracting refractory grade Magnesia from sea water by the Central Salt and Marine Chemical Research Institute (CSMCRI) is in the process of being granted US patent which will definitely boost the production of high-grade refractory products for the steel sector.
"We have been granted notice of allowance for a US patent filed on technology for extracting high grade Magnesia of 99.3 per cent purity from concentrated sea water," institute's director Pusphito Ghosh said.
"Shortly, the US patent for this homegrown technology will also be granted," Ghosh said.
Refractories are lining materials which can not be dispensed with in order to continue any high temperature furnace or kiln operations. Such material is largely used in linings for furnaces, kilns, incinerators and reactors. High grade Magnesia is the core product used in lining of refractories at steel smelting plants. Besides, it finds application in cement, glass and copper smelting industry, industry sources said. The availability of high grade magnesia for industrial purposes is scarce and the commodity has to be imported at a high cost to meet the domestic demand.
"Relining of refractories at steel smelting plants will reduce due to our finding of high grade magnesia," Ghosh said.
"This radical change in extraction of such high purity magnesia from concentrated sea water will come as a major boost for making high grade refractory products for the steel industry," a steel ministry official said.
"The institute's process of preparation of magnesia from magnesium hydroxide was granted US patent this month. The high grade magnesia extracted through this indigenous process was of 97.3 per cent purity," Ghosh said.
CSMCRI, a laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is situated in Bhavnagar (Gujarat) has now proposed to set up a pilot manufacturing plant of around 0.4 tonnes capacity per day for this high grade Magnesia (99.3 per cent purity).
Source: PTI inputs    

Siemens LiquiRob Technology: First installation by Riva Group at the electric arc furnace

- No comments
9-Aug-2010

liquirob technology

The Riva Group has become the world’s first steel producer to use the Siemens LiquiRob technology at an electric arc furnace. LiquiRob improves operational safety and increases precision of measurement and sampling. The robot system has been installed in its French plant in Neuves-Maisons where it handles sampling and temperature and Celox measurements. Operating personnel now no longer need to enter potentially dangerous areas, which has substantially increased industrial safety. The system is designed for fully automatic operation and enables precise and reliable measurements to be made at frequent intervals. The acceptance certificate was issued mid-March.

The Neuves-Maisons works produces rebars and coils, and belongs to the SAM Division of the Riva Group based in Milan, Italy. The plant produces steel in an electric arc furnace with a tapping weight of 150 tons and a ladle furnace. The steel cast on a six strand sequential billet casting plant, from which the billets pass on to a rolling mill for further processing. The solution implemented in Neuves-Maisons also includes installation of three automated magazines to store the sample and measuring, which can be safely filled by the operating personnel one time per day outside the dog house. The sampling and measuring procedures can be run completely automatically.

Until recently, the operating personnel had to enter the dog house to take samples and measure the temperature and oxygen activity of the liquid steel using a manipulator. These dangerous and strenuous activities are now handled by the LiquiRob System which accesses the steel bath directly through a window in the slag door. The robot system is operated and monitored from a central control room. Siemens was responsible for integrating the LiquiRob System into the existing Dog house and the EAF automation system, as well as for commissioning, and training the operating personnel. Siemens developed LiquiRob specifically to improve industrial safety and the quality of measurements under the harsh operating conditions encountered in the iron and steel industry. The system was implemented for the first time in 2008 in the Gwangyang Steel Works of the Korean company Posco. There, LiquiRob is used for sample taking, temperature measurement within the distributor and for casting powder dosing on the casting platform of a two strand Slab Caster. 
 
Further information about solutions for steel works, rolling mills and processing lines can be found at http://www.siemens.com/metals