INAUGURAL FUNCTION
9:00 – 9:30 hrs

Technical Session I: Raw Materials and Ironmaking-I
10:00 -11:45 hrs
Session Chair: Prof. G.S. Gupta

Sl. No.

Time

Speaker

Title of presentation

1

10:00-10:30

Prof. G. G. Roy
 IIT Kharagpur, India

CFD study of Rotary Hearth Furnace for sponge iron production

2

10:30-11:00

Dr. J. Pal
NML, India

Carbon reaction mechanism and kinetics in hematite ore pellet during induration

3

11:00-11.30

Dr. R. Sah
 JSW, India

High pellet Operation in blast furnace and improvements for the cost-effectiveness of sustainable ironmaking  

Tea Break: 11:30 am-11:45 am (15 min)

Technical Session II: Raw Materials and Ironmaking-II
11:45 -13:15 hrs
Session Chairs: Prof. Gautam Biswas

1

11:45-12:15

Prof. G. S. Gupta
IISC Bangalore, India

A Robust 3D Model of the Blast Furnace

2

12:15-12:45

Dr. V. Runkana
TCS, India

Hybrid Digital Twins for Optimization of Blast Furnace Ironmaking

3

12:45-13:15

Mr. R. Chatterjee Tata Steel, India

TATA STEEL’s effort to develop Numerical & Physical models for Blast furnace operation

Lunch Break: 13:15-14:15 (1 hr.)

Technical Session III: Primary and Secondary Steelmaking-I
 14:15-15:45 hrs
Session Chair: Prof. B. Deo

1

14:15-14:45

Prof. S. Seetharaman KTH, Sweden, (online)

Modelling of Slag properties in Iron and Steelmaking - Thermoslag software

2

14:45-15:15

Prof. C. Pistorius, CMU, USA

Rate and extent of slag-based nitrogen removal from steel

3

15:15-15:45

Prof. A. Kamaraj
   IIT Hyderabad, India

Physical and Thermodynamic Modelling of Liquid Steel Tapping Process

Tea Break: 15:45 - 16:15

Technical Session IV: Primary and Secondary Steelmaking-II
16:15-18:15 hrs
Session Chair: Prof. C. Pistorius

1

16:15-16:45

Prof. B. Deo
IIT Bhubaneswar, India

Tipping Points Leading To Chaos During BOF Operation

2

16:45-17:15

Prof. S. Ueda, Tohoku University, Japan

Control of physical properties of fluids for low-carbon steelmaking

3

17:15-17:45

Prof. A.K.Singh,
IIT Kanpur, India

Mathematical Modelling of EAF Operations

4

17:45-18:15

Mr. Rohit Tiwari, McGill University, Canada

Generating Microbubbles in Liquid Metals

Felicitation of Prof. Dipak Mazumdar
18:30 – 19:30 hrs

Conference Dinner
Outreach Lawn
19:45 Onwards