The Department of Metals Extraction and Recycling is open to cooperation with scope:
- Experimental and numerical modeling of multiphase processes in metallurgy – liquid steel flow, transport and separation of inclusions in liquid steel, thermal phenomena and phase transformations, solidification.
- Assessment of the metallurgical properties of ores, sinters and iron ore pellets,
- Assessment of the properties of blast-furnace coke,
- Investigation into the possibility of the effective use of raw materials in the iron ore and concentrate sintering process,
- Investigation into the utilization of waste materials from iron metallurgy processes.
- Assessment of the metallurgical properties of ores, sinters and iron ore pellets,
- Assessment of the properties of blast-furnace coke,
- Investigation into the possibility of the effective use of raw materials in the iron ore and concentrate sintering process,
- Investigation into the utilization of waste materials from iron metallurgy processes,
- Provision of the thermochemical database of over 3000 inorganic substances, including the properties of liquid iron-based metallurgical slags and solutions,
- Making thermodynamic calculations for complex heterophase systems and phase equilibrium states of iron metallurgy processes,
- Making mass and heat transfer calculations and performing numerical simulations (based on mathematical models) for the following metallurgical processes:
- steel bath mixing and secondary metallurgical processes in converters and ladle furnaces,
- continuous steel casting, and in particular calculations for the tundish and the mould (including continuous casting solidification),
- Laboratory testing of "liquid metal – gas" systems by the levitation technique under overpressure conditions up to 3.0 MPa,
- Laboratory testing of steelmaking processes in the "crucible – liquid metal – slag phase" system (with a sample mass of up to 1 kg) under gaseous phase overpressure conditions up to 1.0 MPa and in a temperature range of up to 1873 K.