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

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

Instructors

The course instructors are leading experts in their fields who will provide attendees with strategies and techniques that have been shown to work, based on their extensive experience.

Ray Peterson

Real Alloy (Lead Instructor)

Ray Peterson Peterson is Technology Director for Real Alloy, formerly a division of Aleris International. He has also worked for IMCO Recycling and Reynolds Metals Company during his career. Peterson received his Ph.D. in Metallurgy from the University of Utah in 1984. He has served in many areas of TMS, including as chair of the Aluminum Committee, Light Metals Division Chair, and President in 2009. Dr. Peterson and a co-worker received the TMS 1991 Light Metals Best Paper Award for work on dissolved metals in Hall-Heroult cryolitic melts. Ray also received the Recycling Technology Award for his paper in the 2002 Light Metals. He has authored 56 papers and made numerous presentations in many areas related to aluminum: primary aluminum production, recycling, dross processing, and molten metal treatment and handling. Dr. Peterson has also been active in industrial energy management. He has been granted 5 US Patents and in 2018 he was inducted as a Fellow of TMS.

Samuel R. Wagstaff

Oculatus Consulting (Lead Instructor)

Samuel R. Wagstaff is currently a partner at Oculatus Consulting, specializing in aluminum processing and product development. He earned his B.Sc. degree from Cornell University in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2013. Samuel then earned a M.Sc. degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focusing on characterizing macrosegregation patterns in large format rolling slabs. He then earned a Sc.D. in 2016, also from MIT, for his work on engineering convective flows to minimize the appearance of macrosegregation. Following his graduate studies, he worked at Novelis in their rolling facility in Sierre, Switzerland in their automotive development department, focusing on process refinement and product troubleshooting. In 2018, he moved to the Novelis R&D center in Kennesaw, Georgia where he became a lead scientist for product and process development. At Oculatus, he works on next-generation technologies for the aluminum sector and improvements in current processes. His current focus is on improving the profitability of existing centers via casting process improvement and recycle-based product development. Samuel is the author of 16 peer-reviewed articles and inventor of over 25 patent applications.

Mark Badowski

Speira GmbH

Bio Coming Soon.

Dmitry Eskin

Brunel University

Dmitry Eskin received his engineering and Ph.D. degrees from Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (Technical University, Russia). After that he worked as a senior scientist in the Baikov Institute of Metallurgy (Russian Academy of Sciences) with a main research focus of alloy development, heat treatment, and metal processing of aluminum alloys. From 1999 to 2011, he was a Fellow at the Materials Innovation Institute (The Netherlands) and since 2008 he has also held a position of associate professor at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), where he conducted fundamental and applied research on solidification processing of metallic materials. In 2011 he joined Brunel University (U.K.) as a professor. His current research concerns solidification processing of light alloys. He is a well-known specialist in physical metallurgy and solidification processing of light alloys, author and co-author of more than 250 scientific papers, seven monographs, and a number of patents. Among his books are Multicomponent Phase Diagrams: Applications for Commercial Aluminum Alloys (2005), Physical Metallurgy of Direct-Chill Casting of Aluminum Alloys (2008), Direct-Chill Casting of Light Alloys: Science and Technology (2013), Ultrasonic Melt Treatment of Light Alloys Melts (2014) and Solidification Processing of Metallic Alloys Under External Fields (2018). Eskin has been a member of TMS since 2000, where he has co-organized a number of symposia, and is a regular speaker at TMS annual meetings. He is a recipient of two Warren Peterson Cast Shop for Aluminum Production Awards and one Aluminum Technology Award from TMS.

Gerd-Ulrich Grün

Speira GmbH

Gerd-Ulrich Grün received his diploma in geophysics in 1982 from Technical University of Clausthal. He joined the research department of the German Aluminium company VAW in 1990, where his work concentrated on the development and application of mathematical modeling tools on the DC casting and shape casting of Aluminium. Later on, this extended to areas like filter development and furnace optimization. Previously, he was Head of the Research Department Process Development within the Research & Development of Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products GmbH, located at the Research Center Bonn, Germany. In this role his responsibilities included research and development work regarding topics like recycling, melt treatment, DC casting of rolling ingots, and the further rolling process chain. As a part of this responsibility he was also involved in participating in and managing several international research projects in the field of modeling of casting and solidification. He is also active in organizing and reviewing activities with regard to international conferences, including serving as the TMS Annual Meeting Cast Shop Symposium Chair and Co-Chair. Grün has authored and co-authored numerous international publications, holds three patents, and has given lectures on DC casting at engineering schools and technical courses in Germany.

Arild Håkonsen

Hycast

Arild Håkonsen is the head of Engineering & Technology at Hycast AS, and earned his first master’s degree in physical metallurgy at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH). He holds a second master’s degree in technology management from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and the University of California, Berkeley. Håkonsen has been with Hycast, a subsidiary of Hydro Aluminium AS that develops, produces, and markets casthouse technology, since 2002. He has worked as research and development manager, head of Technology Management, and has been a member of its board of directors. Prior to this, Håkonsen worked as a senior metallurgist for Hydro Aluminium. His areas of expertise include melt refining of liquid aluminum, DC casting, solidification, and innovation. He has also worked as a research scientist and as a project leader of a European Union research project on mathematical modelling of DC casting (EMPACT), as well as several projects supported by The Research Council of Norway (NFR). Håkonsen has 20 international publications and three patents within aluminum technology.

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