Experimental research and mathematical modelling of the melting and dissolution behaviour of scrap in liquid hot metal

Doctoral Thesis

Experimental research and mathematical modelling of the melting and dissolution

behaviour of scrap in liquid hot metal

Dipl.-Ing. Florian Markus Penz, BSc

August 2019

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