Application of mass and energy balance in oxygen steelmaking

Mass and energy balances are vital for understanding and analysing the oxygen steelmaking process. Steelmaking plants commonly have in-house static balance models for controlling the process parameters. The present model uses semi-empirical relations for developing generalized mass and energy balance models. The developed models compute the mass of flux required, heat of post-combustion, heat needed for scrap melting, and flux dissolution based …