The new caster would produce carbon and stainless-steel grades of strip that's 3 mm thick and 1,220 mm wide. Known strip-casting research now is based outside of the U.S. in Australia, Japan, Europe, and Canada. Nippon Steel built a commercial strip caster for stainless products. BHP reportedly is close to commercializing such a caster. At the end of the project, DOE filed four patent applications related to the project.
Process uses a smelter.
AISI, Mannesmann Demag Electrochemical Removal of Zinc from Steel Scrap Develop process to remove zinc from scrap and recover it for reuse. Argonne National Laboratory, Metal Recovery Industries U.S. Advanced Process Control Research Program Develop new methods of measuring steel-processing parameters and steel properties from production through casting and forming into finished products.