Science of Remelting: Ferrous Alloys 2.5 credits

style Type of education: For Professionals

place Location: Online, with one meeting in Jönköping

access_time Length: 5 weeks, starting week 36, 2025

Advance Your Expertise in Iron and Steel Casting!

This course provides a comprehensive foundation in the theoretical and practical aspects of manufacturing iron and steel castings, focusing on the essential characteristics of iron-based alloys. Designed for professionals in metallurgy and materials engineering, the curriculum emphasizes both process understanding and quality control in casting technologies. This course bridges theoretical knowledge with practical application, equipping you with the skills to optimize processes, enhance material properties, and ensure casting excellence. Ideal for those seeking a deeper academic understanding or advancing in metallurgical fields.

Course content:

The course is designed to familiarize students with theoretical/practical contexts for the sustainable melting and remelting of cast iron and steels, the main characteristics of iron-based alloy melting, and their importance on the circularity. The students will get familiar with different methods of melting and casting steel and cast iron. The course also focuses on the quality control methods. Other relevant concepts including CO2 emission and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) rules will be discussed.

The course includes the following elements:

Fundamentals of Ferrous Metallurgy.
Melting technology of Cast Iron (Melting furnaces, melting methods, charge optimization).
Liquid treatment and Ladle metallurgy (Alloying, desulfurization, inoculation, modification).
Quality control of the liquid iron (Chemical analyses, dissolved gas analyses, test of fluidity, cooling curve and volume change analyses).
Quality control by characterization of cast iron (Wedge tests, characterization of cast iron by morphology).
Elaboration of steel for shape casting (Melting, charge, de-oxidation and other treatments, control methods).

Course facts

Length:

5 weeks

Level:

Advanced

Study speed:

33% speed

Location:

Online, with one meeting in Jönköping.

Language:

English

Start of course:

1 September 2025

Application:

Application open March 15, ongoing admission, maximum 20 places.

Eligibility:

Alt. 1: Academic degree of at least 180 ECTS credits within Engineering and/or Technology. Proof of English proficiency is required.

Alt. 2: Passed courses of at least 40 credits in the main field of study within Engineering and/or Technology and at least 1 year of work experience in the manufacturing industry. Proof of English proficiency is required.

Alt. 3: At least 4 years of work experience in the manufacturing industry. Proof of English proficiency is required.