Stahlinstitut VDEh https://vdeh.de/en/steel-academy/seminars/programme/ – 22.04.2025

Programme and Registration

Programme and Registration

April28

Refractory Technology

Refractory Materials And Slags in Metallurgy

Apr 28th, 2025 – Apr 30th, 2025seminar in english

Content:
• Basics on chemical and mineralogical composition of refractory material and slag
• Testing and evaluation of refractory materials
• Synthetic alumina raw material and high alumina cement
• Insulating materials for the steel industry
• The world of monolithics
• Machines for processing and delivering refractory con-cretes and sprayable refractories
• Basic bricks for the steel industry
• Production and Use of Blast Furnace Slags and Steel Slags
• Blast furnace slag and refractory material
• Converter slag and refractory material in the oxygen blowing process
• Electric arc furnace: Unit for low-CO2 steel production
• Ladle slag and refractory material in secondary metallur-gy
• Limestone minerals, lime and dolime and their use in the Iron and Steelmaking

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July01

Blast Furnace Ironmaking

Online seminar from the VDEh film studio

Jul 1st, 2025 – Jul 3rd, 2025seminar in english

CONTENT
• Crash course materials chemistry
• Chemical and physical processes in blast furnace
• Blast furnace construction and equipment
• Injection of reducing agents into the blast furnace
• Blast furnace operation
• Resources and types of iron ores
• Sintering, pelletizing
• Coal, cokemaking and requirements on coke
• Blast furnace performance
• Various blast furnace operations modes round the world
• CO2-minimized blast furnace processes, CCU, CCS
• Slags
• Recycling (Fines, dusts, etc.)
• Environmental aspects

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September02

Secondary Metallurgy of Steel

IntercityHotel Duisburg

Sep 2nd, 2025 – Sep 4th, 2025seminar in english

CONTENT
• Tasks of modern secondary metallurgy
• Materials technologies impact on process metallurgy
• Chemistry crash course: How to read phase diagrams
• Thermodynamic and kinetics for secondary metallurgy
• Fluid dynamics in the ladle
• Temperature control using self-learning AI
• Mechanism and kinetics of special reactions
• Deoxidation and calcium metallurgy
• Metallurgy of: ladle furnace, ladle degassing plant, RH plant, VOD and AOD process and of special melting processes
• Special melting processes, especially ESR
• Inclusions and their reduction
• Hydrogen-based CO2-neutral steel production
• Discussion: Does hydrogen-based steel production pose new challenges for secondary metallurgy?
• Teamwork exercise: Steel plant layouts for different types/grades of steel

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September09

Continuous Casting of Steel

Sep 9th, 2025 – Sep 11th, 2025seminar in english

This Continuous Casting Course is designed to train persons in continuous casting of steel. In three days the essential topics of CC are explained in detail. The course is suitable to give an overview to newcomers and to train operating engineers in theoretical fundamentals

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