Imaging the flow profile of molten steel through a submerged pouring nozzle

3rd World Congress on Industrial Process Tomography

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 736-742

  Ma, X ^a   Peyton, A J ^a   Binns, R ^a   Higson, S R ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Corus RD and T Teesside Technology Centre Corus UK Ltd ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuous steel casting; Electromagnetic tomography (EMT); Image reconstruction; Sensor array

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS CASTING; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOZZLES; SENSOR ARRAYS; STEEL FOUNDRY PRACTICE; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTINUOUS STEEL CASTING; DATA-ACQUISITION UNITS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; FLOW PROFILE; HOST COMPUTERS; MOLTEN STEEL; SUBMERGED POURING; TOMOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS;

STEEL CASTINGS;

EID: 14844322466     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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