The Series in Metallurgy and Materials Science was initiated during the Diamond Jubilee of the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM). This book is the fourth textbook in the series. According to the author, the requirements for a text of this kind are: it should be concise and contemporary, less descriptive, based on fundamentals and sufficiently quantitative. This is because courses on extractive metallurgy, mineral processing, fuels, furnaces and refractories have been dispensed with to accommodate newer subjects related to structure, properties and processing of different kinds of emerging and functional materials such as refractories, polymers and composites. A First Course in Iron and Steelmaking is a textbook catering to undergraduate metallurgical engineering students that fulfils all these criteria. The author’s experience in more than a dozen domestic steel and refractory industries has added flavour and value to the concepts presented in the book.
Professor Dipak Mazumdar is internationally recognized in the area of steel education and research. He has been teaching ‘Process modelling’ and ‘Iron and steelmaking’ at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur for nearly three decades. He has written chapters in books, over a hundred papers in peer reviewed journals and co-authored three books. He is well known for numerous seminal contributions in the area of ladle metallurgy steelmaking, tundish metallurgy and continuous casting. Professor Mazumdar is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and currently holds the distinguished Ministry of Steel Chair Professorship at IIT Kanpur. In addition, he works as a consultant for more than a dozen steel and refractory industries in the country.
Preface 1. An Overview of Iron and Steelmaking 2. The Science Base of Iron and Steelmaking 3. Ironmaking 4. Steady State Material and Enthalpy Balance in an Iron Blast Furnace 5. Primary Steelmaking 6. De-oxidation, Ladle and Tundish Metallurgy 7. Solidification of Steel, Casting Processes and Finishing Operations 8. Iron and Steelmaking in India
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