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    Continuous casting, also called strand casting, is the process whereby molten metal is solidified into a "semifinished" billet, bloom, or slab for subsequent...
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    benefits from vacuum casting, also applied to jewelry casting. Continuous casting is a refinement of the casting process for the continuous, high-volume production...
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    obtained a patent in 1857 for the casting of metal between contrarotating rollers – a forerunner of today's continuous casting processes and remarkably, Bessemer's...
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  • A casting defect is an undesired irregularity in a metal casting process. Some defects can be tolerated while others can be repaired, otherwise they must...
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  • area less than 36 in2 (230 cm2). Billets are created directly via continuous casting or extrusion or indirectly via hot rolling an ingot or bloom. Billets...
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    is produced by the direct conversion of selected refined cathodes and castings under carefully controlled conditions to prevent contamination of the pure...
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    Die casting is a metal casting process that is characterized by forcing molten metal under high pressure into a mold cavity. The mold cavity is created...
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    well as adjusting casting temperature. Additionally, there are four continuous slab casting machines, each having two arc casting strands (radius: 10...
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    the U.S. To supply its mills, Nucor uses electric arc furnaces and continuous casting to melt scrap steel as opposed to blast furnaces to melt iron. In...
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  • Power stations Natural gas processing Sanitary waste water treatment Continuous casting of steel Strip processing lines: eg. pickling lines; tandem rolling...
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