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Tundish Technology for Casting Clean Steel: A Review

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With increasing demand of high-quality clean steel, cleanliness is of paramount importance in steel production and casting. Tundish plays an important role in controlling the continuously cast steel quality as it links a batch vessel, ladle, to a continuous casting mold. Tundish is also the last vessel in which metal flows before solidifying in mold. For controlling the quality of steel, flow and temperature control of the melt are critical, and these are presented in this paper. Use of proper flux, design of flow control devices, and gas injection in tundish become important factors in casting clean steel. Recycling of hot tundish, centrifugal flow tundish, H-shaped tundish, etc. are some of the developments which were implemented to cast clean steel and these are discussed.

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The author gratefully acknowledges contributions made by Dr. Toshihiko Emi, coauthor of the book[1], which has been extensively used in preparing this manuscript.

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Sahai, Y. Tundish Technology for Casting Clean Steel: A Review. Metall Mater Trans B 47, 2095–2106 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-016-0648-3

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