entropic remnants
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- John Griggs
Basically, at the steel mill sometimes things fail just when you don't want them too. For instance, when the lining of a ladle holding 180 tons of steel fails, it would be better if there were not molten steel IN the ladle...
This was not a bad one which is why I'll show it. The ladle had to be taken to a dump pit, have it's arms unlocked, and then some of the steel poured off to take it below the level of the failure. When the ceramic lining fails the steel melts through the other shell and keeps enlarging the hole until a total failure occurs. This one happened high up at the "slag line" so it's easier to deal with.
In the first three still shots below, you can see the ladle leaking steel (on the far side sorry), workmen unlocking the pivoting lift arms, then finally the top level of steel and slag being poured off.
In the video (now at the bottom of this post) I'll show the "re-ladling" operation where the steel is poured into a good ladle so it can be salvaged -- 180 tons of steel is a lot of money and can't be wasted if at all possible.
The video is a high-def, hand-held video with the Panasonic LX7. I did a very basic edit, titling, and music addition in Premier Elements 11 -- nothing fancy. The music is Django Reinhardt which I hope you like okay... and if you don't tough, lol.
And here's the video:
[video=youtube;vNzP9cvHSkM]
This was not a bad one which is why I'll show it. The ladle had to be taken to a dump pit, have it's arms unlocked, and then some of the steel poured off to take it below the level of the failure. When the ceramic lining fails the steel melts through the other shell and keeps enlarging the hole until a total failure occurs. This one happened high up at the "slag line" so it's easier to deal with.
In the first three still shots below, you can see the ladle leaking steel (on the far side sorry), workmen unlocking the pivoting lift arms, then finally the top level of steel and slag being poured off.
In the video (now at the bottom of this post) I'll show the "re-ladling" operation where the steel is poured into a good ladle so it can be salvaged -- 180 tons of steel is a lot of money and can't be wasted if at all possible.
The video is a high-def, hand-held video with the Panasonic LX7. I did a very basic edit, titling, and music addition in Premier Elements 11 -- nothing fancy. The music is Django Reinhardt which I hope you like okay... and if you don't tough, lol.
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And here's the video:
[video=youtube;vNzP9cvHSkM]