Specializing in Strand Casting Technology
and Solidification-related Problems

Major Projects have included.....

•  Quality audits at various slab, bloom, and billet casting facilities.
   
•  Analysis of mold-level control-system problems on slab casters.
   
•  Assistance in engineering new single- and dual-strand slab casters.
   
•  Re-design of the spray system on a mini-mill billet caster.
   
•  Concepts and preparation of a specification for a new dual-strand bloom caster.
   
•  Solving of quality problems in slab casting Al-killed sheet steel and plate steel.
   
•  Analysis of operating and quality problems in the strand casting of lead.
   
•  Report on the effects of hydrogen in strand cast steel.
   
•  Tundish design modifications for producing auto-quality LCAK steel slabs.
   
•  Analysis of strand bulging strains for various slab casters.
   
•  Re-design of the mold for a rounds caster.
   
•  Full-scale water model studies of billet and slab caster tundishes.
   
•  Solution of breakout problems in the casting of steel rounds, billets and slabs.
   
•  Study of cracking problems in as-solidified centrifugally-cast rolls.

Casting Consultants, Inc. has also provided assistance in specification writing for design and up-grading of facilities, as well as analyses of breakouts, as-cast structures, surface and/or internal quality problems, and steelmaking practices for strand casting.

Address:

P.O. Box 20590
Rochester, NY 14602
Phone/Fax: (585) 387-9553

E-Mail: casting (at) omeansea.net

Edward S. Szekeres, Ph.D., P.E. - Principal Consultant

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