Preface; Contents; About the Editors; Steelmaking; 1 Development of Ultrahigh-Basicity Mold Fluxes for Peritectic Steel Continuous Casting; Abstract; Introduction; Experimental Method; Slag Film Formation; Slag Film Analysis; Results and Discussion; Thickness and Growth Rate of Solid Films; Surface Roughness of Solid Films; Measured Porosity of Solid Films; Industrial Applications; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Metal Extraction; 2 Applied Statistical Analysis on the Calcination Process in the Ferronickel Production; Abstract; Introduction

The Rotary Kiln in the Ferronickel ProductionThe Calcine Temperature Challenge; Data Mining and Statistical Analysis in Industrial Processes; Pattern Recognition; Control Variables Histogram; Determining Optimal Control Ranges; Dynamic Part of the System; Comparison with Current Control; Conclusions; References; 3 The Chemical Stability and Electrochemical Behavior of Dy2O3 in Molten CaCl2; Abstract; Introduction; Experimental Methods and Materials; Results and Discussion; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Solid-State Processing

4 Evaluation Feature of Nano Grain Growth of TiO2 Thin Film via Sol-Gel RouteAbstract; Introduction; Experimental; Results and Discussion; Characterization of TiO2 Nanocrystals; Grain Growth Kinetics of TiO2 Nanocrystals; Grain Growth During Heat-up and 2 H Soaking Time; Fractal Dimension of Grain Boundary; Grain Growth During Isothermal Holdings; Kinetic Exponent of Grain Growth; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Molten & Gas State Processing; 5 Influence of Oxygen on Surface Tension of Zirconium; Abstract; Introduction; Surface Tension and Viscosity Measurements; Experiments

Experimental ResultsConclusion; References; 6 Thermal Analyses of Silver-Based Sulfosalts in Air; Abstract; Introduction; Phase Stabilities of AgBiS2 and AgCuS; Pyrometallurgical Roasting; Experimental Section; Materials Preparation; Thermal Analysis; Results and Discussion; Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 7 Oscillation of a Zirconium Droplet-Experiment and Simulations; Abstract; Introduction; Theory; Experiment; Numerical Simulation; Geometry; Numerical Solver; Multiphase Modelling; Solution Methods; Mesh; Solution Initialization and Initial Condition; Time Step

Results and DiscussionReferences; 8 Gallium Evaporation Behavior for Purification in Molecular Beam Epitaxy; Abstract; Introduction; Background; Results and Discussion; Free Evaporation; Calculation of Ga Gas Particles Transmission Probability for Vertical Standing Crucible; Evaporated Ga Amount Under the Consideration of Collision Inside the Crucible; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 9 Mass Transfer of Al and Ca Between Silicon and Synthetic SiO2-CaO-Al2O3 Slags; Abstract; Introduction; Process Overview; Experiment; Results; Discussion; Samples; Behavior of Al ; Conclusions