Study the chemical reactions and thermodynamics related to the production of steel and how they impact the environment. Explore the production of iron in the blast furnace, the key processes of iron making from the raw materials (iron ore pellet, sinter, coke and flux) through to the final product (hot metal and slag) and the advantages and limitations of the blast furnace iron making process and the new iron making process development. Examine the BOF and EAF routes of steelmaking along with secondary refining and continuous casting to understand the advantages and critical parameters of each process.
No Scheduled Class Meetings, January 9 - April 9 (Online)
Location:
ONLINE
Instructor:
Gianpiero D'Alessio, Joydeep Sengupta
Notes:
No textbook required for this course. Course content available on course start date at 9:00 AM, Eastern. Please note registering after the course start date may delay course access and does not permit exceptions to coursework due dates or the refund policy.
Instructors
Gianpiero D'Alessio
John D’Alessio is the director of Operating Technology & Innovation for Stelco. John is an experienced Director in process technology with over 25 years of demonstrated history of working in the mining and base metals and steel industry. John has overseen projects that include metal extraction with expertise in pyrometallurgical processes, process health monitoring and control, process engineering and technology, project engineering, advanced analytics, digitalization, operational excellence, and lean six sigma methods. Mr. D’Alessio earned a B.Eng. degree in Materials Science in 1993 and an M.Eng. degree in 1996, both from McMaster University. Mr. D’Alessio has held a sessional faculty position at McMaster University since 2007 and is currently instructing courses in both the Walter Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology and the MCE Metallurgy of Iron Steel Program. He also held the committee chair position from 2011 to 2017 for the McMaster University Blast Furnace Ironmaking Intensive Short Course.
Mr. D’Alessio has co-authored many technical papers, received the J.F. Moore Prize for outstanding student of Metallurgy for the Class of 1993, has been a member of the Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) since 1994, became a Professional Engineer registered with the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) in 1998, holds the 2006 and 2020 Kapitan Award for best paper, the J. E. Johnson Jr. Award for 2008 and earned his Black Belt for Lean Six Sigma (LSS) in 2013.
Mr. D’Alessio has been actively serving the academic community, continues to serve as a committee member for the McMaster University Blast Furnace Ironmaking Intensive Short Course, and worked closely for many years in liaison with Purdue University Northwest (formerly Purdue University Calumet), Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation, in ironmaking research and is a board member for the Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC) and the Canadian Carbonization Research Association (CCRA).
Joydeep is currently employed at ArcelorMittal Dofasco as a Senior Research Leader, Primary Processes – Continuous Casting. He earned his Master’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology He earned his Ph.D. at the Department of Material Science and Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2002. He has been teaching at McMaster since 2007.
