Campbell, Andrew P., Pericleous, Koulis A. ORCID: 0000-0002-7426-9999 and Cross, Mark (2002) Computational modelling of freeze layers in smelting processes. In: 2002 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, 18-21 Feb 2002, Seattle, WA, USA.

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Abstract

The use of computational modelling in examining process engineering issues is very powerful. It has been used in the development of the HIsmelt process from its concept. It is desirable to further water-cool the HIsmelt vessel to reduce downtime for replacing refractory. Water-cooled elements close to a metal bath run the risk of failure. This
generally occurs when a process perturbation causes the freeze and refractory layers to come away from the water-cooled element, which is then exposed to liquid metal. The element fails as they are unable to remove all the heat. Modelling of the water-cooled element involves modelling the heat transfer, fluid flow, stress and solidification for a localised section of the reaction vessel. The complex interaction between the liquid slag and the refractory applied to the outside of thewater-cooled element is also being examined to model the wear of this layer. The model is being constructed in Physica, a CFD code developed at the University of Greenwich. Modelling of this system has
commenced with modelling solidification test cases. These test cases have been used to validate the CFD code’s capability to model the solidification in this system. A model to track the penetration of slag into refractory has also been developed and tested.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Additional Information:	[1] The 131st Annual Meeting & Exhibition of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) was held from 17–21 February 2002 in Seattle, Washington USA. It incorporated the postponed 2001 TMS Fall Extraction and Process Metallurgy Meeting: Computational Modeling of Materials, Minerals, and Metals which had been planned for 23-26 September 2001. The paper was given within Computational Modeling of Materials, Minerals & Metals Processing: Track B - Melting & Solidification - I on 18 February 2002.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	computational modelling, smelting processes, PHYSICA
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software T Technology > TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy
Pre-2014 Departments:	School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Numerical Modelling & Process Analysis School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Numerical Modelling & Process Analysis > Computational Science & Engineering Group School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Department of Computer Systems Technology
Related URLs:	Organisation Organisation
Last Modified:	02 Mar 2019 15:51
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/752

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