Model for controlling processes in the ladle treatment of steel

In Russia, the Bardin Central Research Institute of Metallurgy (TsNIIchermet) has used results obtained from many years of basic research to construct physicochemical models of the processes of deoxidizing, desulfurizing, alloying, and finishing steel in out-of-furnace treatments in accordance with the main chemical reactions that take place. Construction of the models has in turn made it possible to develop a series of software applications designed to solve practical problems that arise in controlling the processes which occur in ladle metallurgy.