The purpose of our paper is to assess the reuse potential of the steel mill scale for sustainable industrial applications. We have presented the experimental procedures for chemical and mineralogical characterizations. According to the results of the...
The high-performance alloy, 304 stainless steel, is widely used in various industries. However, its material properties lead to severe tool wear during milling processes, significantly increasing milling force and adversely impacting machining qualit...
This paper explores the impact of various milling strategies, including up-milling, down-milling, and hybrid approaches, on the surface roughness of AISI P20 mold steel. The study is methodically divided into three stages to comprehensively understan...
This work reports on the electrochemical kinetic analysis of carbon steel powders produced during the milling of carbon steel chips for 2, 3, and 5 h under an air atmosphere in a high-energy ball miller. This work aims to fill the gap in the literatu...
The purpose of this work is to carry out an accurate and extensive environmental analysis of the steel production occurring in in the largest integrated EU steel mill, located in the city of Taranto in southern Italy. The end goal is that of highligh...
Hot work tool steel (AISI H13) and high speed steel (AISI M3:2) powders were successfully co-sintered to produce hybrid tool steels that have properties and microstructures that can be modulated for specific applications. To promote co-sintering, whi...
The utilization of CO2-containing steel-mill gases for synthesis of methanol was investigated. Four different scenarios with syngas derived from steel-mill gases were considered. A process model for an industrial methanol production including gas rec...
The aim of this study was to investigate cutting force when milling 40 × 13 stainless steel samples obtained via electron-beam surfacing. The samples were obtained by surfacing the wire made from the martensitic 40 × 13 stainless steel. T...
Vegetables grown in areas affected by industrial emissions may be subject to contamination with heavy metals. In the present study, this issue was investigated in sweet pepper grown using two different methods and at various distances from a steel mi...
During the process of chip formation, the chip is subjected to extrusion pressure, friction, heat, and a strong chemical reaction. The chip’s macro and micro morphology, to a certain extent, reflect the condition of the tool during the cutting...
The paper describes an attempt to obtain harmonic structure (HS) in AISI308L steel. Harmonic structure is the term related to the microstructure fabricated by mechanical milling of metallic powders under soft milling conditions, resulting in the form...
Powder metallurgy tool steels, such as Vanadis 4 Extra (1.2210), are increasingly used in cold-work applications due to their superior hardness, wear resistance, and microstructural uniformity. Despite their growing popularity, there is limited data...
Obtaining high levels of mechanical properties in steels is directly linked to the use of special mechanical forming processes and the addition of alloying elements during their manufacture. This work presents a study of a hot-rolled steel strip prod...
This study describes the use of ultrasonic-assisted end milling to improve the quality of the machined surface of hard Stavax (modified AISI 420) mold steel and to reduce the amount of work involved in the final polishing process. The effects of inpu...
Design and manufacturing are the key steps in the sustainable manufacturing of any product to be produced. Within the perspective of injection molds production, increased competitiveness and repeated changes in the design require a complete optimized...
Helical milling presents a promising alternative to conventional drilling for hole production, offering superior surface quality and improved production efficiency. While this technique has been extensively applied in the aerospace industry, its pote...
Burrs are a significant machining defect affecting the quality of precision parts, and tool eccentricity may substantially influence milling burrs. Using AISI 304 stainless steel as the workpiece material, a three-dimensional thermo-mechanical couple...
The hardened tool steel AISI O1 has increased strength, hardness, and wear resistance, which affects the complexity of the machining process. AISI O1 has also been classified as difficult to cut material hence optimum cutting parameters are required...
The rotor or impeller is a rotational and key part of a pump and compressor. This article presents the detailed development process of a rotor of small size constructed from an EN8 steel cylindrical blank using a novel technique based on a computer n...
The global shortage of zinc mines makes the extraction of zinc from zinc-containing wastes a hot research topic. Most kinds of steel mill dust (SMD) cannot be directly returned to the ironmaking and steelmaking processes due to their zinc content. A...
The growing demand for metals with high performance and optimal mechanical properties, especially in highly corrosive environments under high-temperature conditions, has led to the increased use of duplex stainless steels. Its applications are increa...
Intermittent machining using ceramic tools such as hard milling is a challenging task due to the severe mechanical shock that the inserts undergo during machining and the brittleness of ceramic inserts. This study investigates the machinability of ha...
Turn-milling is a relatively new process which combines turning and milling operations, offering a number of advantages such as chip breaking and interrupted cutting, which improves tool life. In addition to providing the capability of producing ecce...
The polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PCBN) milling tool can be used in the mold industry to replace cemented carbide tools to improve machining efficiency and quality. It is necessary to study the tool wear and failure mechanism to increase machi...
AISI 5140 steel is an alloy frequently used in the manufacturing and automotive industries. This steel alloy is shaped using different manufacturing methods and cooling is required during this process. This research study included the milling of AISI...
Utilizing exhaust gases from the steel mill generation to produce chemicals presents a promising avenue for carbon capture and utilization (CCU) concepts. Employing a model-based mathematical approach, specifically mixed-integer linear programming (M...
Steel mill dust (SMD), produced by electric arc furnaces, is a highly polluting industrial waste due to its high content of metals (Zn, Fe, and Pb) and fine particle size (ca. 5.4 µm). This residue can be valorized to recover Zn using pyro and...
The difficulties in the machining of duplex stainless steel are well known. However, research on this matter is rather limited. Suppliers offer quite different cutting tools for the same raw material, with end mills of two, three or even four knives...
In the metal cutting process, the tool condition directly affects the quality of the machined component. To control the quality of the cutting tool and avoid equipment downtime, it is essential to monitor its condition during the machining process. T...
End-milling operation of steel grade material is a challenging task as it is hard-to-cut material. Proper selection of cutting tools, cutting conditions, and cutting process parameters is important to improve productivity, surface quality, and tool l...
Chromium (Cr), a metal that is released in appreciable amounts from the steel industry into water bodies, is not only the main causative agent of lung cancer in human but also negatively affects the metabolic activities of plants. Keeping in view the...
The specific features of the destruction of tool ceramics, associated with structural heterogeneity and defects formed during diamond grinding, largely determine their reduced reliability (dispersion of resistance). This is most pronounced at increas...
Super duplex stainless steels (SDSSs) are widely utilized across industries owing to their remarkable mechanical properties and corrosion resistance. However, machining SDSS presents considerable challenges, particularly at high speeds. This study in...
The energy-intensive steel industry, which consumes substantial amounts of electricity, meets its power demands through external electricity purchases and self-generation through the operation of its own generators. This study aimed to optimize boile...
As one of the machines widely used in mining, a semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mill can significantly improve the roughing efficiency of rock. But the SAG mill still faces the obstacles of significant energy consumption and empirical operation parame...
Machining of medium-carbon steels, such as AISI 1050, poses a significant challenge in terms of achieving stable cutting conditions, controlled chip evacuation and high surface integrity, in particular when full-face milling is performed under elevat...
The primary purpose of this work was to study the effectiveness of using diamond-like coatings (DLC) to increase the wear resistance of carbide end mills and improve the surface quality of the processed part when milling aluminum alloy and low-carbon...
In the present paper, the effect of mechanical ball milling time on the fretting wear of GCr15 steel balls at different displacement amplitudes is investigated. TiC powder coating was fabricated on the surface of GCr15 steel balls using various proce...
Due to the increased consumption of raw materials, energy, and the waste it generates, recycling has become very important and fundamental for the environment and the industrial sector. The production of duplex stainless–steel powders with the additi...
The aim of this study was to provide an experimental investigation on the novel method for recycling chips of duplex stainless steel, with the addition of vanadium carbide, in order to produce metal/carbide composites from a high-energy mechanical mi...
To improve the fatigue life of the key component and the surface properties of the 30CrNi2MoVA steel material, advanced ultrasonic-milling composite superficial treatment was performed. The microstructure, surface roughness, friction and wear perform...
Annealing and galvanization production lines in steel mills run continuously to maximize production throughput. As a part of this process, individual steel coils are joined end-to-end using mash seam welding. Weld breaks result in a production loss o...
CK45 steel has various industrial uses due to its durability, wear resistance and strength. It is generally used in machinery, automotive industry, hydraulic cylinders, bearings, gears and similar applications. It is important to investigate the mach...
The environmental evaluation of the sorption-enhanced water–gas shift (SEWGS) process to be used for the decarbonization of an integrated steel mill through life cycle assessment (LCA) is the subject of the present paper. This work is carried o...
This study proposes a data analysis and modelization method for the rolling mill process of billets in steel plants. By exploiting rolling mill signals and advanced data processing algorithms, a reliable billet tracking system is designed, which trac...
High-strength non-oriented electro-technical steels with a low thickness possess excellent isotropy of electromagnetic and mechanical properties which is highly required in the production of high-efficiency electric motors. The manufacturing process...
To address the issues of high cutting speeds and low surface precision during milling, this study investigates the effects of front and back cutting face microstructures on ball-end milling cutters processing 304 stainless steel. Firstly, a theoretic...
Dargai District Malakand, Pakistan, is a tax-free zone that attracts many industrialists to install their plants in this area. Along with other industries, a number of steel mills are polluting the natural environment of this locality. This study aim...
As the main energy-consuming equipment, the reheating furnace plays an important role in the scheduling of continuous casting and hot rolling for a steel mill. This paper studies the energy consumption of cold and hot slab conversion mode in a reheat...
We report on an experimental study and statistical optimization of the surface roughness using design of experiments and the Taguchi method for parts made of 1.2709 maraging steel. We employ a hybrid additive manufacturing approach that combines addi...
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