Celebrating the Megascale

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Keynote Session

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. David Gordon Campbell Robertson: A Biographical Sketch

      • J. B. See

      Pages 3-15

   3. Evolution of the Large Copper Smelter — 1800s to 2013

      • P. J. Mackey

      Pages 17-37

   4. Evolution of the Mega-Scale in Ferro-Alloy Electric Furnace Smelting

      • Lloyd Robert Nelson

      Pages 39-68

   5. From Sulfide Flash Smelting to a Novel Flash Ironmaking Technology

      • Hong Yong Sohn

      Pages 69-76

   6. Fostering Minerals Workforce Skills of Tomorrow through Education and Training Partnerships

      • Gavin Lind

      Pages 77-84

   7. Modeling of Ladle Metallurgy in Steelmaking

      • Gordon Irons, Krishnakumar Krishnapisharody, Kevin Graham

      Pages 85-92

   8. Process Metallurgy an Enabler of Resource Efficiency: Linking Product Design to Metallurgy in Product Centric Recycling

      • Markus Reuter, Antoinette van Schaik

      Pages 93-104

   9. Horizontal Single Belt Casting (HSBC) of Ca-Based Bulk Metallic Glass (BMG) Strips

      • Roderick I. L. Guthrie, Mihaiela Isac, Donghui Li, Luis Calzado

      Pages 105-117

3. Ferro-Alloys

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Developments in Manganese Ferroalloy Research and Production in the Last 25 Years

      • Merete Tangstad, Ragnar Tronstad

      Pages 121-128

   3. DC Arc Furnaces — Past, Present, and Future

      • Rodney T. Jones

      Pages 129-139

   4. Recent Developments in Factsage Thermochemical Software and Databases

      • Christopher W. Bale, E. Bélisle, P. Chartrand, S. A. Decterov, G. Eriksson, A. Gheribi et al.

      Pages 141-148

   5. Reduction of Agglomerated Manganese Ores in a 150 kW Pilot Scale Furnace

      • Merete Tangstad, Thomas Brynjulfsen, Eli Ringdalen

      Pages 149-156

   6. Arc Detection in DC Arc Furnaces

      • Quinn G Reynolds, Christopher J Hockaday, Dominic T Jordan, Ian J Barker

      Pages 157-167

   7. An Electromagnetically Stirred Slurry Model for the Smelting Zone of a Ferroalloy Furnace

      • Ben Bowman

      Pages 169-178

   8. Roles of Mn Carbides in Carbothermic Processes for Mn Alloys

      • Byeong Deok Lee, Hyun Kyu Shin, Young Eun Lee

      Pages 179-186

4. Non-Ferrous Smelting, Converting, and Refining

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Redoubling Platinum Group Metal Smelting Intensity — Operational Challenges and Solutions

      • Rodney Hundermark, Lloyd Nelson, Bertus de Villiers, July Ndlovu, Diale Mokwena, Phillimon Mukumbe et al.

      Pages 189-196

The volume contains more than 70 papers covering the important topics and issues in metallurgy today including papers as follows: keynote papers covering a tribute to David Robertson, workforce skills needed in the profession going forward, copper smelting, ladle metallurgy, process metallurgy and resource efficiency, new flash iron making technology, ferro-alloy electric furnace smelting and on the role of bubbles in metallurgical processing operations. Topics covered in detail in this volume include ferro-alloys, non-ferrous metallurgy, iron and steel, modeling, education, and fundamentals.

• pyrometallurgy
• metallic materials
• materials engineering
• characterization of materials
• evaluation of materials

• Curtin University, Australia

  Eric J. Grimsey

• AusIMM, Australia

  Eric J. Grimsey

• Pyrometallurgy Division, Mintek, South Africa

  Rodney T. Jones

• Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, High Temperature Processing research group, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

  Geoffrey A. Brooks

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