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- Instructor(s)
- Saito Koji
- Class Format
- Lecture (ZOOM)
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- Intensive (Zoom)
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- Course number
- MAT.M429
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2020/9/18
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- English
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Course description and aims
This course focuses on the current issues on ironmaking process for the sustainable society. This course could give the students taking this course an opportunity to consider how to introduce innovative technologies such as sensing and simulation to high-temperature process so as to improve the energy efficiency, and how to develop the environmental friendly process. In this course, the general outline of current ironmaking process will be explained at first. Particularly, the way to mine, concentrate and transport iron ores as well as coals, which are both indispensable resources for ironmaking, will be detailed along with the method for evaluating the resource quality and their world-wide trends. Then, the current trend of research and development, for example, IoT and AI on ironmaking process, will be explained. Finally, various challenges for CO2 emission reduction will be explained, and the future issues with respect to iron and steelmaking process will be discussed.
Student learning outcomes
A target of this course is to understand what kinds of effort are being carried out by steelmaking companies on the research and development of ironmaking process in order to attain the sustainable society. Based on this understating, the future targets for CO2 emission reduction will also be discussed, which is the other important target of this course.
Keywords
coke, sintering, blast furnace, iron ore, coal, resource trend, sensing, simulation, IoT, CO2 emission reduction, blue carbon, environmental friendly process
Competencies that will be developed
| ✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
The lectures are given using power point which shows the related photos and data.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction of ironmaking process | To understand ironmaking process which is composed of coking, sintering and blast furnace iron making |
| Class 2 | Resource trends of iron ore and coals | To study how to mine, concentrate and transport iron ore and coal, and how to evaluate the resource quality |
| Class 3 | Current trends of research and development on ironmaking process | To know the current trends of research and development of ironmaking such as sensing and simulation |
| Class 4 | Future issures in terms of environmental friendly technologies of ironmaking process | To understand the present efforts done by steelmaking companies and to discuss the future issues for CO2 emission reduction |
Textbook(s)
Materials relevent to the lecture are provided in the course.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Materials relevent to the lecture are provided in the course.
Assessment criteria and methods
To attend the course and to submit the report
Related courses
- MAT.M428 ： Properties and manufacturing process for automotive sheet steels
- MAT.M302 ： Physical Chemistry in Metals
- MAT.M207 ： Phase Diagram and Stability in Metals
- MAT.A204 ： Thermodynamics of Materials
- MAT.M203 ： Chemical Reaction Dynamics(M)
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
Students must have successfully completed "Physical Chemistry in Metals (MAT.M302)", or have equivalent knowledge.
