Comprehensive Overview of Primary Steel Making, Secondary Steel Making and Continuous Casting

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
02 Nov 2025 Dubai, UAE $ 3,900 Register

Comprehensive Overview of Primary Steel Making, Secondary Steel Making and Continuous Casting

Introduction

The steelmaking and casting course provides a comprehensive overview of primary steelmaking, secondary steelmaking and continuous casting. The course uses classroom and practical based learning, including laboratory work and a visit to a steel plant to observe steelmaking and casting operations for slab production. 

Objectives

    • This course will provide you with an in-depth knowledge of the primary and secondary steelmaking and casting processes
    • After the course you will have an understanding of the fundamental science in the steelmaking and continuous casting processes.

Training Methodology

The training methodology is interactive with group exercises and is suitable for all employees involved in functions management. The pace and level of the training workshop is customized to the understanding of the delegates. Ongoing back-up and support is available after the training on request to the supplier, and the training course is also available for in-house presentation as well as for “Competency Transfer”.

Who Should Attend?

The course is aimed at people working in the steel industry, steel production and casting, as well as the steel industry supply chain, which will benefit from a broad understanding of the steelmaking and casting processes. Typical delegates include production operators and engineers, manufacturing and operations managers, metallurgists, technical quality personnel and health & safety specialists.

Course Outline

Primary Steelmaking

  • Basic oxygen furnace process, theory & practice, engineering aspects
  • Electric Arc Furnace, operation and refining
  • Stainless steel, via arc furnace and argon oxygen decarburization

Secondary Steelmaking

  • Ladle stirring
  • Degassing processes for gas removal and low carbon steels
  • Ladle metallurgy, slag chemistry for sulphur removal and inclusion engineering
  • Practical aspects of secondary steelmaking

Continuous Casting

  • Mould design and operation – heat transfer, mould powders,
  • Machine engineering – strand support, roll layout and construction
  • Secondary cooling – theory and practice
  • Casting metallurgy and product defects
  • Casting process modelling – tundish and submerged entry nozzle

Associated Topics

  • Current product requirements – customer expectations
  • Introduction to liquid iron production – blast furnace
  • Downstream operations – rolling processes
  • Environmental issues facing the steel industry –
  • Emerging steelmaking technologies – update on world R&D
  • Basic steelmaking calculations – thermal and mass balancing

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