Within the scope of the symposium “CO2-free, sustainable Steel-production and Hydrogen-technology” the state of development of hydrogen-smelting-plasma-reduction was presented at the Montanuniversität Leoben on the 5th of February 2020. With this reduction technology it is possible to produce steel directly form it’s ore without any intermediate stage. Therefore it is an alternative to the common [...]
On the 9th of January 2020, students from the senior class of the HTL Leoben visited the chair for ferrous metallurgy. After a quick lunch, there was an extensive agenda. First, some of our PHD candidates introduced the topics of our chair and gave insight about the future of the metallurgical industry. The core areas [...]
This week the 109th meeting of the ASMET committee of experts for metallography and microstructure analysis took place at the chair for ferrous metallurgy. The objective of this committee of experts is the transfer of knowledge between researchers, heads of testing laboratories as well as metallographers from all over Austria. Aside from an introduction of [...]
Today, Tuesday, the HTL Vöcklabruck visited us and took a look at the Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy. After a short introduction, the inquisitive young researchers got familiar with the world of steel and received first impressions of what metallurgists can do. The path from iron ore to the end product was explained to them and [...]
Welcome to #facesofmetallurgy, the exciting interview series in which we bring well-known metallurgists in front of the camera. ?️?? In round 12, we introduce Lucas Holzer. He has received an award of a special kind. He convinced the jury with his pre-scientific work entitled "The production and use of hydrogen in the production of iron [...]
Since 2018 is Prof. Schenk appointed as Distinguished Professor of Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST). He was invited to Wuhan from October 9 to 12 and during this stay he participated at the Wuhan Annual Conference of Refractories. In the course of this conference he attended the 1st Academic Committee Meeting of the [...]
This week we had a stormy affair with a fire drill at the Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy. To prepare all our staff for an emergency case, we had a fire drill together and got some general information about fire safety at the parkinglot of IZR. After some information about fire in general and the requirements, [...]
Florian Markus Penz has submitted his thesis “Experimental Research and Mathematical Modelling of the Melting and Dissolution Behaviour of Scrap in Liquid Hot Metal” under supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Johannes Schenk and passed his PhD exam with distinction on October 14th. Congratulations!
Lukas Preuler has submitted his thesis “Charakterisierung der Spritzwasserkühlung in der Sekundärkühlzone einer Brammenstranggießanlage” under supervision of Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.mont. Christian Bernhard and passed his PhD exam on October 14th. Congratulations!
The first open house day of the Montanuniversität Leoben of the school year 2019/2020 has taken place with great success. The time of the “Matura” was very stressful, so after summer holidays, many guests now found their way to us in the metallurgy building. In a relaxed atmosphere and with refreshing drinks our guests got [...]
