Slag Manager
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Overview
Slag Manager is online hardware and software that automatically calculates and adds the least cost and technically optimal flux addition to every heat of steel.
Slag Manager systems can be configured to include raw material supply, material hoppers, and injector stands for each of the flux components.

Cost Saving Benefits
Minimize flux requirement
Increase ladle refractory life
Improve arc stability
Better metallurgical control and steel quality
Impoved alloy recovery
Reduces need for skimming after tap

System Features

Slag Manager selects flux additions through the use of steel batch history, available material compositions and costs, mass balance, phase diagrams and optical basicity mathematical models to attain predictable removal of impurities and to match refractory materials
Slag Manager allows creation of foaming slags through chemically controlled gas release which is non-oxidizing, allowing better thermal insulation and, through lower density, requires less slag mass
Slag Manager uses calcium carbide and aluminum in least cost and technically optimal proportion to reduce FeO and MnO in the ladle.

Additional Features

Optional advanced sensors such as slag detectors and vision system cameras for slag detection
Interface to plant data network
Optional automated multi-hopper flux mixing system
Custom operator interface
Historical data archiving

Creates Optimum Slag Properties:

Provide continuous partially molten oxide phase on the surface of the steel
Capture and retain inclusive non-metallic material present in the steel
Be non-oxidizing with respect to the steel
Control sulfur content of the steel
Be non-corrosive to ladle refractory linings
Promote stable arcing during electric arc reheating in the ladle
Protect the steel from contact with the atmosphere
Provide thermal insulation