Cokemaking
- Fundamentals in cokemaking
- Coal blending practise
- Latest developments in slot oven plant technology and design
- Latest developments in heat recovery oven plant technology and design
- New cokemaking technologies
- Coke oven repair techniques and life prolongation
- Measures for improving coke quality
- Measurement of wall displacement and pressure of coke oven chamber
- Coke plant operation, instrumentation and automation
- Improving productivity and safety
- Stamp charging technology
- Coke oven gas cleaning and utilization of by-products
- Graphite formation at coke ovens
- Coke quenching technologies
- Coke oven refractories
- Alternative use of coke oven gas
- New coking plants
Sintering and pelletising
- Chemical analysis and raw materials testing
- Fundamentals in sintering
- Sinter plant construction and layout
- Sinter process optimisation
- Sinter plant operation and automation
- Use of concentrates in sinter mix
- Sinter quality
- Sinter cooling
- Sinter plant waste gas cleaning
- Energy recovery and use in sinter plants
- Fundamentals in pelletising
- Pellet plant construction and layout
- Pellet plant operation and automation
- Production of acid and fluxed pellets
- Use of hematite and/or magnetite pellet feed for pellet production
- Pellet qualities and coating of pellets
- Reduction of pellets under different conditions
- Briquettes
Blast furnace ironmaking
- Overview on blast furnace operation
- Fundamentals in blast furnace ironmaking
- Hot metal pretreatment
- Blast furnace construction and design
- Blast furnace process optimization and automation
- Modern process control techniques and models
- Blast furnace relinings
- Blast furnace campaign life extension
- Blast furnace refractories and cooling
- Blast furnace charging
- Blast furnace productivity
- Blast furnace hearth management
- Hot metal and slag quality
- Coke quality requirements and reduced coke rates
- Injection of auxiliary reductants (coal, oil, gas, plastics) and oxygen
- Hot blast stoves and blowers
- New blast furnaces
- Blast furnace liquid management and casting practice
- Gas cleaning devices
- Top gas expansion and recovery turbines
- Oxygen and top gas recycling blast furnace
- Alternative blast furnace processes
- Injection of hydrogen and biomass
Direct reduction and smelting reduction
- Fundamentals in direct reduction and smelting reduction
- Production and use of DRI and HBI
- Gas-based DRI processes and new developments
- Hydrogen based DRI processes
- Coal-based DRI processes and new developments
- Transport and charge of hot DRI to electric arc furnaces
- Shipment of DRI and HBI
- Current status of Corex and Finex processes
- Status of HIsarna process
- Other smelting reduction processes