Basic Oxygen Steel Plant Design

Abstract

The whole process of producing finished steel from primary raw materials is a sequence of steps, some of which are batch operations, whilst others are continuous. Many of the batch operations are nowadays becoming so quick that the sequence of events has come to resemble a relay race in athletics, the progress of the baton being analogous with that of the steel in its successive stages of manufacture. As with the relay race, where the impor-tance of baton changing needs to reminder, the inter-ference between the progressive steps in steelmaking can make or break a successful operation and whilst in any particular case this can be improved with experience, practice can only make it perfect if the actual equipment and the way in which it is functionally combined will allow.