Tools and Publications
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Case studies, fact sheets, and software tools of interest to the steel industry are available through BestPractices. |
The Industrial Technologies Program offers a wide array of publications, videos, software, and other information products for improving energy efficiency in the steel industry. Most items are available on-line or may be obtained by contacting the EERE Information Center.
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BestPractices
Check out the Cost Reduction Now Brochure that helps identify low-cost and quick-payback energy-saving opportunities! The ITP BestPractices web page also contains tools to improve your plant's energy efficiency, enhance its environmental performance, and increase its productivity. ITP can work with you to improve your plant-wide systems:
- Motors (PDF 282 KB)
- Industrial Assessments (PDF 323 KB)
- Systems Management (PDF 73 KB)
- Pumps (PDF 154 KB)
- Steam (PDF 84 KB)
- Compressed Air (PDF 138 KB)
- Combined Heat and Power (PDF 189 KB)
- Process Heat (PDF 169 KB)
Hydrogen and Nitrogen Control in Ladle and Casting Operations
This report (PDF 876 KB) identifies and quantifies the sources of hydrogen and nitrogen during tapping and ladle operations. To develop a comprehensive set of equations to predict the nitrogen and hydrogen pickup from their various sources, estimates of hydrogen and nitrogen pickup during steel transfer operations (e.g., tapping and ladle stirring) and the predicted pickup from steelmaking additions were integrated into empirical equations. The comprehensive model was designed to predict the gas pickup under varying operating conditions (metal oxygen and sulfur content, total tapping or stirring time, stirring gas flow rate, slag thickness). Model predictions are based on mathematical and empirical evidence derived from thermodynamic and kinetic fundamental principles.