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Electroslag Remelting Technology for Contemporary Engineering. Retrospection and New Possibilities

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New methods are developed for managing the physical chemistry and structural uniformity of electroslag remelted (ESR) ingots with the aim of improving consumer properties for the most critical power generation objects, including atomic and heavy engineering, substantiation and practical verification of the principles of managing physicochemical, and thermophysical processes, approval of monitoring and control methods, and development on this basis of new areas for using ESR during manufacture of solid, hollow, and shaped ingots. Results of the work make it possible to the evaluate the ESR process afresh as an economic effective contemporary method for manufacture of high quality objects.

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S. V. Orlov and Zh. K. Kashirina (AO NPO TsNIITMASh) participated in the work.

Work was carried out with financial support from the Russian Federation Ministry of Science and Technology within an agreement for supply of a subsidy for performing applied scientific research on the theme “Research and development of fundamentally new import-substitution technology for producing shut-off and control equipment made from nanostructured steel exhibiting a good reserve of corrosion resistance in a gas medium with a high H2S and CO2 content” (Unique identifier PNIÉR:RFMEF157915X0114).

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    V. S. Dub, L. Ya. Levkov, D. A. Shurygin & D. S. Tolstykh

  2. PAO Ruspolimet, Kulebaki, Nizhegorod Region, Russia

    V. V. Klochai, E. L. Коrzun & A. A. Garchenko

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Translated from Metallurg, Vol. 62, No. 6, pp. 28–35, June, 2018.

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Dub, V.S., Levkov, L.Y., Shurygin, D.A. et al. Electroslag Remelting Technology for Contemporary Engineering. Retrospection and New Possibilities. Metallurgist 62, 511–520 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11015-018-0688-9

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