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| The Tata Steel Group has several aluminium cast houses, converting primary aluminium and scrap into ingots and billets according to customer requirements. As all the cast houses have different lay outs, the Ceramics Research Centre has a unique overview, covering: |
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- Secondary melting furnaces (gas fired as well as induction heated)
- Two chamber furnaces for contaminated scrap recycling, Greenmelt
- Tiltable rotating furnaces, AluRec™
- Holding furnaces
- Transport ladles, transfer and casting launders, sliding gates
- Metal treatment boxes
- Porous plug applications
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| In close cooperation with the cast house personnel, which know the user requirements, CRC can help to lower the cost of ownership of refractory containing installations. |
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| Structured working method |
| The structured approach that the CRC considers: Usage/Maintenance, Materials, Design/Construction and Installation as life time (=costs!) determining factors for refractory containing installations. Taking all four factors into account will reveal the potential benefits; leaving one factor out may end in a suboptimal situation. |
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| CRC specialists can help with: |
- Post mortem investigations, revealing the causes for failure
- Materials selections and testing
- Standardized aluminium resistance tests (e.g. cup tests, submersion test)
- Customized test set ups, simulating your specific application with salts,
mechanical loading, elevated temperatures etc.
- Thermo mechanical design
- Independent appraisal of tenders
- Supervision during actual installation
- Quality control of supplied materials
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Top: Cross section of two cuptest samples.
Below: Test samples after full aluminium submersion test at 900ºC for 120 hours.
Both tests enable comparison of aluminium resistance of refractory materials.
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