Meeting Resources

Aluminum Cast Shop Science and Technology Course (Cast Shop 2024)

June 9–14, 2024 • Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Course Curriculum

Schedule at a Glance

Attendees will leave this course with increased skills to reduce costs and scrap defects, improve casting quality, and increase cast house throughput, while maintaining safety and environmentally friendly performance. The course schedule will include the following lecture topics:

Cast Shop Safety

Aluminum Recycling and Sustainability

Liquid Metal Preparation
  • Primary Metal Supply
  • Scrap Melting
  • Furnace Technology
  • Melt Refining (Degassing, Fluxing, Filtration, Inclusion Removal and Control)
  • Dross Generation and Metal Recovery
  • Alloying
  • Grain Refinement

Solidification Theory and Practice

Casting Equipment and Engineering
Direct Chill (DC) Casting
  • Different Products (Rolling Slab, Extrusion Billet, etc.)
  • Differing Mold Technologies
  • Water Cooling
  • Macrosegregation
  • Hot and Cold Cracking and Other Defects
  • Product Shape Control
  • Variants such as Electromagnetic Casting
  • Horizontal Direct Chill Casting
  • Heat Flow
  • Mathematical Modeling

Chain Conveyor Ingot Process

Continuous Casting

Cast Shop Economics

For More Information

For more information about this meeting, please complete the meeting inquiry form or contact:

TMS Meeting Services
5700 Corporate Drive Suite 750
Pittsburgh, PA 15237
Telephone:
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