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STI April 2012
Welcome to the April issue of STI. The issue is packed full of features including articles on Ironmaking, Coating, conference reports and a new feature titled Know Your Steel.
Ironmaking articles include Air humifidication to improve sintering, and A new burner design for steam generation fuelled by blast furnace gas.
The Coating feature includes articles on Paint systems for steel and a paper on Efficient furnaces for batch galvanizing.
The Know Your Steel feature will run for the rest of the year and is aimed at metallurgy for non-metallurgists.
Front cover courtesy of Midrex
News
News – Tata Steel invests in UK distribution centre 4
Statistics & Events – February output rises to 119Mt 10
USA Update – US steel industry applauds as politicians talk tough on China 8
Latin America Update – Argentina: A good microeconomic performance but bad macroeconomic policy 12
China Update – China’s steel market is warming up 14
Ironmaking
Air humidification to improve sintering 19
A new burner design for steam generation fuelled by blast furnace gas 23
Enhancing the efficiency of overflow clarification in a washery thickener 27
Coating
Electroless nickel plating for corrosion and wear resistance 31
Paint systems for steel 36
Efficient furnaces for batch galvanizing 60
Know your steel
The basics of iron and steelmaking – Part 1 Terminology 38
Others
Standardisation of steel plant building in a portfolio of projects 42
The characteristics of Walking Beam Furnaces for plate mills 49
Conferences
CRU’s 18th World Steel Conference 2012 55
CIS Industrial Metals Summit in Moscow 60
History: Bridgebuilding materials of three centuries 68