23rd IAS Steel Conference technical program

December 1-2, 2021

Wednesday, December 1
Room A Room B Room C Room D Room E Room F
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM Opening Ceremony (ROOM A) Opening Ceremony (ROOM A) Opening Ceremony (ROOM A) Opening Ceremony (ROOM A) Opening Ceremony (ROOM A) Opening Ceremony (ROOM A)
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote Lecture: "Energy consumption in the EAF" - Alberto Conejo (University of Science and Technology Beijing)
Crane operator assistant for blind spots
Galvanized steel: technical aspects, challenges and trends
Sodium as key indicator of water quality in water/steam cycle of power plants
Ultra low production operation with natural gas injection of Ternium Argentina BF2
Semantic segmentation in industrial vision: applications to the steel industry
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Introducing of Monolithic Working Lining of Steel Ladle
Noise level analysis of Arcelormittal steel shop ladle furnace operator, according to resolution 85/12 of the Argentina work risk authority
Sustainable steel housing
ERW pipe rupture, fault analysis and development of a fatigue crack life assesment methodology
Alternative test to evaluate pellets and lump ores reducibility
Collaborative instant messaging in industrial management. Chatbot.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Suggested guidelines on the selection of EAF/LF electrodes
Keynote Lecture: "Safety at Ternium: culture and technology challenges" - Alejandro Jacobsen (Ternium)
Oil quenching of medium carbon and low alloy steels: Thermal simulation and experimental microstructure characterization
Reliability based maintenance as part of assets management, in the direct reduction sector of ArcelorMittal Acindar
State-of-the-art coke oven plant concept – main technological aspects
The potential of IOT-connected lighting in industries
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Modeling of air-mist spray in continuous casting of steel
Reduction of breakouts in foot-rollers through optimization of secondary cooling
Keynote Lecture: "Reliability Considerations in Advanced Steels" - Kip Findley (Colorado School of Mines)
Complete reform of CCD2 output slab scale
Effects of increasing lump ore in the blast furnace at different natural gas rates
Detection of process- and machine anomalies in continuous casting by monitoring the strand withdrawal force using machine learning
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Increasing the carbon content in direct reduced iron. Current trends, thermodynamic calculations and industrial results in Arcelormittal Acindar
Assessment of the peritectic behavior in the continuous casting mold
Seamless tube forming simulation: Cold pilgering and tube drawing analysis
Carbide reinforcement for finishing mill rolls and the effect on test results and strip surface
Keynote Lecture: "Computational Modeling and Visualization of Phenomena in the Blast Furnace" - Chenn Zhou (Purdue University Northwest)
Sustainability, operational efficiency and connected workers
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Acería Gerdau - Project, equipment and installed technology - advantages and results
Cooling systems based on ionic liquids
Characterization of penetrators formed in the welding line of ERW pipes
Start-up of an automatic elongation control in a Temper Mill (Ternium Argentina - Ensenada Plant)
Monitoring techniques for assessing the performance and remaining life of spun cast tubes in DRI reformer furnaces
Prediction of the transfer bar temperature at the exit of the roughing mill.
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM Industry 4.0 Panel (ROOM A) Industry 4.0 Panel (ROOM A) Industry 4.0 Panel (ROOM A) Industry 4.0 Panel (ROOM A) Industry 4.0 Panel (ROOM A) Industry 4.0 Panel (ROOM A)
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM Industry 4.0 Panel (ROOM A) Industry 4.0 Panel (ROOM A) Industry 4.0 Panel (ROOM A) Industry 4.0 Panel (ROOM A) Industry 4.0 Panel (ROOM A) Industry 4.0 Panel (ROOM A)
Thursday, December 2
Room A Room B Room C Room D Room E Room F
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Injecting metallic calcium into steels: is it a massive solution?
Keynote Lecture: "State-of-art in modelling, sensors, and microstructure characterization in recent European Union projects at SWERIM" - Pável Ernesto Ramírez López (SWERIM) Keynote Lecture: "Steelmaking Decarbonization Strategies in Latin America" - José Fonrouge (Ternium)
Overcoming challenges with measuring bouncing, unguided cylindrical moving products
New Manaurite® XAl4 alloy for DRI process plants
Ensure the efficiency of your physical infrastructure to support Industry 4.0
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Modern ladle slide gate for steel quality protection and ergonomic operation up to fully automated process control
Design of ladle slags through computational simulation and implementation of results on the process
Filtering Out Failures: A productive conversion experience for a steel mill
Shears front end cropping measurement using artificial vision – rolling mill 3
Corrosion mechanisms identified in the lining of Tenaris DRI shaft furnace
Surface defects detection and classification using Machine Learning
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Ladle free opening evolution in Ternium Argentina. Main variables analysis and actions taken.
Analysis of shrinkage factor on continuous casting steel slabs at Ternium Brazil
Keynote Lecture: "Overview of methods for lowering of CO2 emission in BF Ironmaking" - Lena Sundqvist Ökvist (SWERIM)
Modelling and optimization of air blowing system in the last stand. Cold rolling mill SN
DRI: leading the transition to the Hydrogen Economy
On-line fugitive emissions classification system for the meltshop using deep learning in Ternium Argentina
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Keynote Lecture: "What will INNOVATE mean from now on?" - Eduardo Kastika (ROOM A) Keynote Lecture: "What will INNOVATE mean from now on?" - Eduardo Kastika (ROOM A) Keynote Lecture: "What will INNOVATE mean from now on?" - Eduardo Kastika (ROOM A) Keynote Lecture: "What will INNOVATE mean from now on?" - Eduardo Kastika (ROOM A) Keynote Lecture: "What will INNOVATE mean from now on?" - Eduardo Kastika (ROOM A) Keynote Lecture: "What will INNOVATE mean from now on?" - Eduardo Kastika (ROOM A)
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Keynote Lecture: "What will INNOVATE mean from now on?" - Eduardo Kastika (ROOM A) Keynote Lecture: "What will INNOVATE mean from now on?" - Eduardo Kastika (ROOM A) Keynote Lecture: "What will INNOVATE mean from now on?" - Eduardo Kastika (ROOM A) Keynote Lecture: "What will INNOVATE mean from now on?" - Eduardo Kastika (ROOM A) Keynote Lecture: "What will INNOVATE mean from now on?" - Eduardo Kastika (ROOM A) Keynote Lecture: "What will INNOVATE mean from now on?" - Eduardo Kastika (ROOM A)
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Reducing the qualitative fall index through the use of grade separator during the fly tundish process with degree exchange at Ternium BR
Argon injection influence in mold flow and its thermal distribution monitored by online audit tool
Computational simulation of the welding of a gas pipeline from a moving heat source of the Gaussian type
Steel wire ropes and steel wire rod, an intimate link between sustainability, reliability and increasingly demanding performance
On-line mechanical properties prediction system for hot rolled strips using a machine learning models assembly in Ternium Argentina
Thermal, metallurgical and mechanical model online for optimization and control of heat treatment process at Siderca
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Improving safety conditions in the EAF
Improvements in the process of steel dephosphorization in the basic oxygen furnace (BOF)
Metallurgical characterization of low-carbon micro-alloyed steel for high-strength line pipe applications.
Ternium Ensenada roll shop: reduction in grease consumption for Ensenada tandem CRM by changing TQO bearing technology. Impact in costs, quality and housekeeping
PIMS as Acindar 4.0 platform
Online monitoring and diagnostic system applied to predictive maintenance
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM Steel Executive Forum (ROOM A) Steel Executive Forum (ROOM A) Steel Executive Forum (ROOM A) Steel Executive Forum (ROOM A) Steel Executive Forum (ROOM A) Steel Executive Forum (ROOM A)
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM Steel Executive Forum (ROOM A) Steel Executive Forum (ROOM A) Steel Executive Forum (ROOM A) Steel Executive Forum (ROOM A) Steel Executive Forum (ROOM A) Steel Executive Forum (ROOM A)

This program is subject to change