Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Symposium on Iron and Steel Industry in India to be held at Jamshedpur

Abstract

The paper gives a general appraisal of iron and steel industry in India in relation to current expansion prog-ramme underway during the Second Five Year Plan. The need for research and development to meet particular defici-encies in the suitability and reserves of raw materials has been pointed out. An outline of the work so far done at the National Metallurgical Laboratory on some of the important aspects of ferrous metallurgy has been given. Such investigations have related to treatment of iron ores and upgrading of low grade iron ores particularly Salem magnetites, studies into the development of sinter for the Bhilai Steel Plant and for the use of Salem magnetite as a blast furnace burden, studies into reducibility of magn-etite iron ores of the South, semi-pilot plant invest-igations on 1,--D Oxygen steel-making studies applied to Indian pig irons besides refractories and indigenous ferro-alloys etc.