Recent progress on commercialization of CASTRIP® Direct strip casting technology at nucor crawfordsville

AISTech - Iron and Steel Technology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1027-1035

  Campbell, Peter ^a   Blejde, Wal ^b   Mahapatra, Rama ^b   Wechsler, Richard ^a  

^a Castrip   (United States)

^b BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

Author keywords

CASTRIP technology; Hot rolled steel; Strip casting; Thin gauge hot rolled; Twin roll casting

Indexed keywords

BLUESCOPE STEEL (CO); CASTING ROLLS; DIRECT STRIP CASTING TECHNOLOGY; ISHIKAWAJIMA-HARIMA HEAVY INDUSTRIES (IHI) (CO); LOW CARBON STEEL SHEETS; NUCOR STEEL (CO);

CARBON STEEL; HEAT TRANSFER; HOT ROLLING; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIQUID METALS; LUBRICANTS; METAL MOLDING; MICROSTRUCTURE; OSCILLATIONS; PRODUCTIVITY; ROLLS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); SOLIDIFICATION; STEEL SCRAP; STEEL SHEET;

METAL CASTING;

EID: 18044387169     PISSN: 15516997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

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6. R. Wechsler and P. Campbell, "The First Commercial Plant for Carbon Steel Strip Casting at Crawfordsville", Dr. Manfred Wolf Symposium, 2002, pp. 70-79.
7. P. Campbell et al., "Start-up and Operating Experience of the CASTRIP® Process at Nucor Crawfordsville" ISSTech 2003 Conference Proceedings, 2003, pp. 451-460.
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