A diffusion component for impregnating molten steel with a gas includes a barrier having a first side and a second side, a through-hole formed within the barrier, the through-hole connecting the first side to the second side, and a porous element arranged within the through-hole such that the flow of molten steel passes over the porous element. At least one flow disrupter is arranged relative to the porous element and configured to promote non-laminar flow of molten steel passing through the through-hole.

A stirring device includes a stirring unit, a gas supplying unit, and a feeding unit. The stirring unit includes a drive mechanism and a shaft member. The shaft member includes a hollow rotary shaft coupled to be driven by the drive mechanism to rotate, and a stirring head coupled to rotate with the hollow rotary shaft. The gas supplying unit includes a gas supply, and a piping member fluidly communicating with the gas supply and the shaft member. The feeding unit includes a storage tank and a feeding tube fluidly communicating with the storage tank and the shaft member.

A tundish, wherein a steel passing hole (43) is provided at a lower portion of a gas-curtain weir refractory body (42); an argon duct (46), a gas chamber (45) and a gas-permeable brick (44) are connected to form a gas-curtain generating device, and the gas-curtain generating device is installed at the lower portion of the gas-curtain weir refractory body (42); the gas-permeable brick (44) is provided in association with the position of the steel passing hole (43), and a length of the gas-permeable brick is designed larger than a width of the steel passing hole (43); and a gas-curtain weir plate (4) is provided in a tundish container, the gas-curtain weir refractory body (42) crosses the tundish container horizontally, and divides the tundish container into a first region and a second region.

A method of manufacturing semi-solidified molten metal includes a step of keeping discharging inert gas from a probe in a continuous manner, and inserting the probe into molten metal held at a temperature that is higher than a temperature of the probe and that is equal to or higher than a liquidus-line temperature, a step of extracting the inserted probe from the molten metal such that at least part of a region of a surface of the inserted probe that is in contact with the molten metal is exposed from the molten metal, and a step of inserting the extracted probe again into the molten metal.

A stirring device includes a stirring unit, a gas supplying unit, and a feeding unit. The stirring unit includes a drive mechanism and a shaft member. The shaft member includes a hollow rotary shaft coupled to be driven by the drive mechanism to rotate, and a stirring head coupled to rotate with the hollow rotary shaft. The gas supplying unit includes a gas supply, and a piping member fluidly communicating with the (gas supply and the shaft member. The feeding unit includes a storage tank and a feeding tube fluidly communicating with the storage tank and the shaft member.

Gas purging system comprising a gas purging plug (10) and gas purging plug (10) for metallurgic applications and a gas supply pipe (30) connected to the gas purging plug (10), the gas purging plug (10) with a ceramic refractory body (10k) with a first end (10u) and a second end (100); the second end (100) is in the mounted position of the gas purging plug (10) in contact with a metal melt (41); the first end (10u) is at least partially covered with a metal cover (12.1), the metal cover (12.1) comprises an opening (16) to which optionally a gas supply adapter (20) is connected; the gas purging plug (10) is designed in such a way, that a purging gas which is supplied via the gas supply pipe (30) to the opening (16) flows through the body (10k) and exits the body (10k) at the second end (100); and wherein at least one electronic sensor (70, 70.1, 70.2, 70.3, 70.4) is in contact with the gas purging plug (10), to detect an oscillation waveform of a mechanical vibration (81). The gas purging system further comprises a data processing unit (80) for acquiring the oscillation waveform of a mechanical vibration (81) detected by the electronic sensor (70, 70.1, 70.2, 70.3, 70.4) of the gas purging plug (10) and for calculating a bubble index-signal (83) from the oscillation waveform of a mechanical vibration (81) detected; a control unit (100); wherein the control unit (100) is configured to: displaying the bubble index-signal (83) and/or varying the volume flow (102) through the gas supply pipe (30) depending on the bubble index signal (83) and/or -generating a warning signal (101) when the bubble index signal (83) lies outside a defined range.

A diffusion component for impregnating molten steel with a gas includes a barrier having a first side and a second side, a through-hole formed within the barrier, the through-hole connecting the first side to the second side, and a porous element arranged within the through-hole such that the flow of molten steel passes over the porous element. At least one flow disrupter is arranged relative to the porous element and configured to promote non-laminar flow of molten steel passing through the through-hole.

Provided is a method for producing steel including: preparing a first molten steel and a manganese-containing melt; supplying a nitrogen gas into a storage to blow nitrogen into the melt received in the storage and thereby adjusting a nitrogen content (wt %) in the melt to a required nitrogen content (wt %); and mixing the melt and the first molten steel to produce a second molten steel containing manganese and nitrogen. Since nitrogen is not blown while melting large amounts of solid materials, the oxidation of manganese due to a high temperature may be minimized or prevented. In addition, a large amount of solid material is not added, and a small amount of manganese-containing nonferrous metal or a FeMn ferroalloy is added, if necessary, into a produced melt in a molten state, and thus, a problem of temperature drop due to the input of the solid material may be minimized or prevented.

A method for manufacturing a quasicrystal and alumina mixture particles reinforced magnesium matrix composite, includes manufacturing a quasicrystal and alumina mixture particles reinforcement phase, including preparing raw materials for the quasicrystal and alumina mixture particles reinforcement phase including a pure magnesium ingot, a pure zinc ingot, a magnesium-yttrium alloy in which the content of yttrium is 25% by weight, and nanometer alumina particles, the elements having the following proportion by weight 40 parts of magnesium, 50-60 parts of zinc, 5-10 parts of yttrium and 8-20 parts of nanometer alumina particles of which the diameter is 20-30 nm, pretreating the metal raw materials, cutting the pure magnesium ingot, the pure zinc ingot and the magnesium-yttrium alloy into blocks, removing oxides attached on the surface of each metal block, placing the blocks into a resistance furnace to preheat at 180 C. to 200 C., and filtering out the absolute ethyl alcohol after standing, and drying.

The method includes the following steps: a) providing a tubular sonotrode (1) formed in a material substantially inert to liquid aluminum, such as a ceramic, for example, silicon oxynitride, the sonotrode comprising a first open end region (2) and a second optionally closed end region (3), b) submerging at least some of the open end region (2) of the tubular sonotrode (1) in the liquid aluminum alloy, and c) applying power ultrasound on the liquid aluminum alloy by means of the tubular sonotrode (1).