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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
Swayam is an initiative taken by the government to help learners gain knowledge about various topics. It also provides certification implying with terms and conditions which is optional. This course is designed to be very quantitative, fundamental and informative. With online classes and doubt clearing sessions, participants can easily learn a lot from this course with no problems at the end. This course also makes the candidate's industry ready and helps by providing various industry insights.
Participants can use reference books such as A First Course in Iron and Steelmaking, Dipak Majumdar, UP-IIM, Hyderabad, 2015 and The iron blast Furnace: Theory & Practice, Peacy and Davenport, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1979.
This course also provides learners with certificates having logos of IIT Kharagpur and NPTEL. The certification will help candidates to prove their skills and knowledge on the topic. This course will also lead learners with various job opportunities. The certificate provided will be available in the soft copy so they can access them easily.
The Highlights
- Weekly assignments
- The course duration of 12 weeks
- 100% Online learning programme
- A certificate will be provided by Swayam
- Government certified programme
Programme Offerings
- 100% online learning
- Quiz
- tests
- assignments
- practice test
- videos
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 1000 | yes | IIT Kharagpur |
- The Ironmaking and Steelmaking course is absolutely free of cost.
- Learners who wish to acquire certification need to enrol for the exam. The exam fee is Rs. 1000
- The certificate exam is completely optional.
Ironmaking and Steelmaking course Fees Details
Head | Amount |
Course fee | Free of cost |
Eligibility Criteria
Certifying Qualifying Details
Candidates will only receive a certificate of completion if they score more than 40 out of 100 including assignment and final exam. The total marks will be calculated inclusive of assignment marks and final exam.
What you will learn
As the programme comes to an end, candidates will be able to learn and master some of the concepts that are mentioned below:
- Candidates will get to learn all about burden preparation.
- Learners will have a proper understanding of hybrid steel making.
- They will also have a good knowledge of heat transfer.
- They will get the entire learning and knowhow of the concept of aerodynamics.
- Learners will master the core concepts of a blast furnace.
Who it is for
Admission Details
To join this Ironmaking and Steelmaking course, candidates will need to follow the steps below: -
Step 1: Visit https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc20_mm23/preview. This is the programme URL which will guide the candidate ahead.
Step 2: Thereafter, click on the Sign In/Register tab.
Step 3: Learners will be redirected to a new page where they are required to register themselves using credentials.
Step 4: Registration link will be available soon and will be notified through email address.
Step 5: After the link becomes available, candidates need to click on it and register themselves for the course.
Step 6: Once it is done, learners will be notified through email and will be eligible to access the course.
The Syllabus
- Introduction: Various routes of modern steel making (BF-BOF, DRI-EAF, SR)
- Blast furnace Ironmaking: Shape of the furnace
- Various reactions and zones in the Blast Furnace
- Thermodynamics of Iron making
- Direct & indirect reduction
- Blast Furnace as an efficient counter current gas solid reactor and maximum carbon efficiency
- Overall heat and Material Balance in Blast Furnace
- Rist Diagram based on oxygen balance
- Rist Diagram based on heat & Material balance
- Blast Furnace as a two stage reactor
- A predictive model for coke rate in blast furnace
- Aerodynamics in Blast Furnace (pressure drop, fluidization, channeling, Flooding)
- Burden preparation (sintering, pelletization, coke making)
- Testing of raw materials
- Burden distribution in Blast Furnace
- Auxiliary injection
- Fuel efficiency and productivity in a Blast furnace
- Thermodynamics of steelmaking
- Introduction to LD steel making (process, emulsion, decarburization, catch carbon technique, impurity & slag evolution)
- Hybrid steel making
- Modern EAF/IF steel making
- Secondary Steel making: Thermodynamics & kinetics of deoxidation
- Secondary steel making: Vacuum treatment of steel and processes
- Gas stirring
- Secondary Steel making: Ladle desulphurization
- Inclusion modification by calcium treatment
- Inclusion control by optimizing upstream operating parameters
- Heat transfer and segregation during casting
- Ingot casting
- Continuous casting
- Defects in steel
- Alternative routes of iron & steel making (Rotary kiln, Corex, Midrex)
Instructors
IIT Kharagpur Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
For the certificate exam, candidates need to register and go to their designated exam centres.
The Ironmaking and Steelmaking course provides its candidates with online classes, weekly assignments, study material, university mentors and ease to clear their doubts and an optional certificate.
Participates are required to score 40 out of 100 marks in total including assessment marks and final exam marks.
The instructor of this course is Prof. Gour Gopal Roy from IIT Kharagpur who will teach the learners throughout the course.
The various industries which will support the Ironmaking and Steelmaking course are Tata Steel, Jamshedpur; HEC, Ranchi; SAIL Steel plants; RINL steel Plant, JSW.