Monitoring ladle eye dynamics using multivariate statistical methods

Key conclusions include 1. Ladle eye size increases with gas flowrate and decreases with increasing upper phase thickness. 2. The eye size increases with increasing lower phase depth. 3. Multivariate Image Analysis (MIA), based on principal component analysis, was successfully applied to the cold model work of Krishnapisharody and Irons [5]. Predicted ladle eye size showed good agreement with experimental results for a variety of process …