The primary author Dr. Kathrin Thiele received the prize for the best paper entitled „Different approaches to trace the source of non-metallic inclusions in steel” in the field of process metallurgy from the Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) together with her colleagues Sergiu Ilie, Roman Rössler, Christoph Walkner, Thomas C. Meisel, Thomas Prohaska [...]
The Hydrogen-Carbon Centre at Montanuniversität Leoben was inaugurated in October of this year. The Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy is also involved with two research facilities: a multi-cathode furnace and an arc-based plasma pyrolysis system. The multi-cathode furnace allows us to conduct research into fundamental to industrial-scale issues on a pilot plant scale. The furnace`s [...]
The 11th European Continuous Casting Conference (ECCC) took place in Essen (Germany) from October 7 to 11. Our team from the Chair of Iron and Steel Metallurgy was strongly represented with a total of six participants! Prof. Christian Bernhard, Michael Bernhard, Peter Presoly, Georg Gaiser, Robert Littringer(Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy) and Daniel Kavić (K1-MET) [...]
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 [...]
