2018 Advanced Cupola Concepts Seminar Schedule
Coshocton Village Inn and Suites, Coshocton, OH
Pete Satre (Moderator)
Allied Mineral Products, Columbus, OH
- State of the “Cupola Union” address
David Kasun
Kuttner LLC, Port Washington, WI
- Controls & data management
- Recuperation, gas cooling, filtration technologies
- Heat recovery/renewable resource waste heat reclamation
- Design variations and cupola zones
- Combustion and metallurgical reactions
- Mass-energy balance principles, heat transfer and charge materials sizing
- Effects of hot blast temperature, oxygen injection and humidity
- Tuyere arrangement & design, water cooling considerations
- Dam height, slag layer depth and hearth pressure effects
- Slag chemistry, fluxing and slag rates
- Engineering calculations and efficiency metrics
- New technologies
Brent Buchcuski
United Refractories, Iron Mountain, MI
Angelo Petruccelli
Allied Mineral Products, Columbus, OH
- History, overview, and best practices
- Taphole and separator installation and repair
- Bottom material, extended campaigns
- Mechanical & thermal properties
- High temperature chemical reactions
- Specialty refractories and selection
- New concepts for extended refractory campaigns
- Cooling systems, monitoring and predictive maintenance for extended life
Dan Weiskopf
Neenah Foundry Co, Neenah, WI
- Metallics – selection, quality, variations, cost, trials
- Charge alloy selection & performance
- Injection alloys selection and application
- Contaminants and control
- Coke optimization
- Flux calculations, determining carbon pickup and alloy loss
- Basic charge and least cost charge calculation
Alex Croll
Waupaca Foundry, Tell City, IN
Backup cooling systems, tap out and safety tuyere practices
CO and oxygen hazards for personnel and equipment
Water hazards, drop area and housekeeping
PPE selection and use
Drain and drop practices
Training programs and safety checklists
Lyle Heberling
Iron Casting Research Institute, Columbus, OH
Bruce Blatzer
Consultant, Columbus, OH
- Iron and slag control, sampling and testing
- HMI & data management/logging
- Cupola operation relationships to chemistry and temperature
- Optimizing costs, special charges, transition charges
- Recordkeeping, monitoring, and automation
- Cupola stack gas analysis and measurement
- Understanding coke combustion/melting efficiency/offgas and coke utilization
Gene Ritchie
Ritchie Melting Consulting, Greenwood, IN
Charley Graf
Miller and Company, Danville, IL
- Responding to chemistry variations
- Tuyere and shell failures and response
- Dealing with a runout
- Taphole blowing, back pressure
- Reacting to refractory problems
All speakers and students