Competitive steel quality processing through innovative modelling

钢铁制造是加拿大经济的重要组成部分，必须不断提高技能和实践，以保持与其他国家，公司和/或替代材料的竞争力。钢液质量是这个等式中的关键因素之一，98%的钢在被分配到连铸机的模具之前，都要经过钢包和中间包。在那里，钢被固化成坯、坯、板或条，以进一步加工成最终产品（紧固件、钢筋、板、管、角、H梁等）。本研究的重点是在中间包和模具中开发新的流动，这将大大提高它们在凝固前去除钢液中有害夹杂物的效率。使用位于麦吉尔金属加工实验室的全尺寸水模型，一个实际的12吨的三角洲

Iron and steel making is a key part of Canada's economy, and one must continually upgrade skills and practices to remain competitive with other countries, companies, and/or alternative materials. Liquid steel quality is one of the key factors in the equation, and 98% of all steels produced, passes through a ladle and tundish, before being distributed to the moulds of a continuous casting machine. There, steel is solidified into billets, blooms, slabs, or strips, for further working to final products (fasteners, re-enforcing bars, sheet, pipes, angles, H beams etc.). This research concentrates on developing novel flows in tundishes and moulds that will substantially improve their efficiency in removing harmful inclusions within the liquid steel prior to solidification. Using a full scale water model located in the McGill Metals Processing Laboratories, of an actual 12 tonne, delta