Optimisation of calcium treatment to improve castability

84th Steelmaking Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 871-882

  Cicutti, Carlos ^a   Valdez, Martin ^a   Perez, Teresa ^a   Ares, Roberto ^b   Panelli, Raul ^b   Petroni, Jorge ^b  

^a Fundacion para el Desarrollo Tecnologico   (Argentina)

^b Steelmaking Division   (Argentina)

Author keywords

calcium treatment; calcium yield; Castability; non metallic inclusions; rephosphorised steels

Indexed keywords

EID: 85197533620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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