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Main Trends in the Development of Technology for Casting Steel into Ingots

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This article discusses promising technological measures that can be used to cast ingots. It also examines such issues as multi-ladle casting, optimization of ingot geometry and the chemical composition of the metal being cast, mastery of the production of hollow ingots, stream vacuum-degassing, aspects of the bottom-pouring of large ingots, materials for warming the hot-top part of ingots, protection from secondary oxidation, and high-speed casting. Recommendations are given to improve the technological regimes that are used to cast steel into ingots at Russian plants.

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Translated from Metallurg, No. 6, pp. 31–44, June, 2013.

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Doub, V.S., Romashkin, A.N. & Malginov, A.N. Main Trends in the Development of Technology for Casting Steel into Ingots. Metallurgist 57, 487–504 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11015-013-9759-0

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