On October 29, 2024, the Autumn Conference of the Austrian Scientific Society for Production Engineering (ÖWGP) took place at Graz University of Technology, accompanied by the ÖWGP Doctoral Colloquium. During this event, the best dissertations in the field of production sciences were honoured. First place was awarded to Dipl.-Ing. Dr. mont. Kathrin Thiele from the [...]
From September 30 to October 4, 2024, 11 master's students had the opportunity to visit some of Austria's leading companies in iron and steel production and steel processing. The route led from Leoben to Linz, Leonding, Salzburg, and the Pongau region, concluding in Bruck an der Mur. The trip was accompanied by Prof. Susanne [...]
We are delighted to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Dipl. Ing Dr. mont Oday Daghagheleh on the successful completion of his rigorous. He has defended his doctoral thesis on the topic "Investigation on Thermal Plasma Pyrolysis of Methane for Hydrogen Gas and Solid Carbon Production" with success.
Am vergangenen Donnerstag durften wir unsere Erstsemestrigen herzlich am Department willkommen heißen. Nach der Führung am Lehrstuhl für Nichteisenmetallurgie, begrüßten Susanne Michelic und Kathrin Thiele die Studierenden am Lehrstuhl für Eisen- und Stahlmetallurgie und führten sie in das Studium ein. Dabei gaben sie wertvolle Informationen über den Studienaufbau sowie einen Ausblick auf die bevorstehenden [...]
From Septemer 17-20, 2024, we had the opportunity to visit six leading companies in the in the foundry and metal industry as part of the excursion from the Chair of Casting Research: Wagnerguss GmbH, Fill GmbH, voestalpine Giesserei Linz GmbH, Borbet GmbH, BMW Group Werk Landshut and TCG Unitech. The excursion gave the Master's [...]
From September 23 to 27, 2024, the LMPC - The Liquid Metal Processing & Casting Conference took place in Leoben under the chair of Prof. Abdellah Kharicha (Head of the Chair of Simulation and Modelling of Metallurgical Processes). Our department was also represented by Mehran Abdi, Daniel Ernst, Mohamad Al Nasser, Peter Presoly, Alexander [...]
It was a pleasure to welcome Bryan Webler, Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University and Co-Director of the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research in Pittsburgh, USA at our university. He gave an interesting talk about steel-slag thermodynamics and its consequences for non-metallic inclusions. Within [...]
We would like to congratulate our students on passing their Master's degree defense ALL THE BEST AND "Glück Auf!" ------------------------------------
This year's Asia Steel Conference was held in Changsha (China) from September 4th to 7th. Our Chair was represented at this well-known conference by Prof. Johannes Schenk, Michael Bernhard and Robert Littringer. In his plenary lecture titled "Ongoing Efforts and Challenges in Achieving Carbon-neutral Steel Production", Prof. Schenk gave an outlook on the future of [...]
------ Im Zuge der diesjährigen Hauptexkursion der Nichteisenmetallurgie besuchten im Juli 15 Studierende Spanien und Portugal, um faszinierende Einblicke in die primäre und sekundäre Produktion von Zink, Kupfer, Silizium und Ferrosilizium zu gewinnen. --------- Besichtigt wurden die Unternehmen Befesa Zinc, Asturiana de Zinc, Atlantic Copper und [...]
