The photovoltaic and the semiconductor industries are in growth and it is necessary to supply a large amount of silicon to maintain this growth. Since silicon is still the best material for the manufacturing of solar cells and semiconductor components so the pure silicon like solar grade and semiconductor grade materials are demanded. There are two main routes for silicon production: metallurgi...

This article examines the history of Karaganda metallurgical plant construction. The authors emphasize that issue building large objects heavy industry for war effort became urgent during Great Patriotic War. Due to fact Kazakhstan possessed minerals reserves, in 1942 region People’s Commissariat Ferrous Metallurgy USSR initiated construction a production iron, steel and rolled products. Howeve...

A lot of metallurgical processes take places in shaft furnaces, where reacting gas carrying powders flows up in packed bed of descending metallurgical materials. Gas + powder two phase flow in fixed packed bed has been investigated by author for many years 1 . At present author undertakes the investigations with moving bed. Physical model with glass bed and glass powders was constructed. The ex...

B. Gajdzik, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Katowice, Poland The content of this publication consists of notions connected with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) in metallurgical enterprise. The basic areas of devices condition management through Autonomous and Professional Maintenance are described here. Mentioned areas of activities are per...

abstract: friction stir welding, a solid state innovative joining technique, is widely being used for joining aluminium alloys for aerospace, marine automotive and many other applications of commercial importance. fsw trials were carried out using a vertical machining centre (vmc) on aa6061 alloy. the main objective of the present work was to evaluate the weld processing parameter of friction s...