Data on the course

5 ECTS /135 hours of work

English

Implementation in the 4th period (spring term).

After the course, the student knows the management and control problems in metallurgical industry and can choose between the main modelling and control methods to solve them. He can apply the skills of earlier studies in analysing the control of separate processes and larger process lines and can estimate technical and economic effects of automation in metallurgical industry.

Modelling and control examples of steel production processes: coking, sintering, blast furnace, steel converter, continuous casting, and rolling mill. Model solutions by special-purpose simulators. Also some special measurements are introduced. 

Lectures, practical group work using simulators.

Lectures during one period.

Master’s students in the study programmes of Process or Environmental Engineering/study option Automation Technology. Exchange and other international students. 

Lecture notes in English. Everyone does his/her material during the course in the form of lecture diary that is returned and evaluated at the end. Group work uses the simulator in the Internet.

Continuous evaluation: lectures, lecture diaries, test, and practical work using simulation.

Read more about assessment criteria at the University of Oulu webpage: https://www.oulu.fi/forstudents/assesment-criteria .

The course unit utilizes a numerical grading scale 1-5. In the numerical scale zero stands for a fail.

Jari Ruuska

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