The 9th European Coke and Ironmaking Congress ECIC 2024 was held in Bardolino from 16 to 18 October 2024. The latest technologies and research results in the fields of coke production, biochar and biocoke production, sintering, pelletising and ironmaking (blast furnace, direct reduction and smelting reduction) were presented and discussed at the event. The [...]
After four months of renovation work, the newly designed metallography laboratory at the Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy was reopened at the end of October. The laboratory served our students and employees for over 20 years before the extensive renovation started and a new workspace up to the latest state-of-the-art was built. Particular attention was [...]
We would like to congratulate our students on passing their Master's degree defense ALL THE BEST AND "Glück Auf!"
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 [...]
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 [...]
