A system and method for installing and removing a porous plug relative to a port of metallurgic ladle includes an extendable boom rotatable about vertical axis and pivotable up and down at a first end of the boom. A mast is coupled to a second end of the boom and rotatable about multiple axes relative to the boom to position or maintain the mast in a given orientation, such as in alignment with the port of the ladle in response to rotatable or pivotable movement of the boom. The mast includes a slider mast that is translatable along the length of the mast to insert the plug or retract the plug. The mast may also include jaw grippers to secure the plug and may be configured to rotate the plug relative to the mast. The system may automatically control the position and orientation of the boom, mast, and slider mast.

A blowing control method for maintaining a mushroom head of a bottom-blowing nozzle converter is disclosed. Considering the actual state of the mushroom head at the end of the bottom-blowing nozzle tip, the real-time molten steel overheating change during the blowing process, the process requirements of different stages of blowing conversion, and the macroscopic heat balance of the converter, the oxygen-carbon dioxide-lime powder blowing parameters of the inner tube of the bottom-blowing nozzle are dynamically adjusted during the converter smelting process of the bottom-blowing nozzle converter so as to control the cooling intensity, thus achieving precise control of the size of the mushroom head. The present invention maintains the basic stability of the size of the mushroom head at the end of the bottom-blowing nozzle tip, avoiding nozzle blockage caused by an oversized mushroom head and rapid erosion of the nozzle caused by an undersized mushroom head.

To improve the position of a cylindrical ceramic hollow body the invention relates to a securing device for use with a gas purging brick, where the securing device has the following characteristics in its operational position: A base body which, with its bottom and a circumferential wall, defines a cylindrical space with a corresponding central longitudinal axis, the bottom features an opening whose longitudinal axis aligns with the central longitudinal axis the bottom features a ring-shaped channel which extends concentrically around the opening. at least an inner wall of the channel which is adjacent to the opening consists of a material which is plastically ductile under the application of pressure, a ring-shaped compact whose radial wall cross-section increases in size upwards from a lower free end, so that the inner wall of the channel deforms plastically, thereby reducing the cross section of the opening, after the compact is pressed into the channel.

To improve the position of a cylindrical ceramic hollow body the invention relates to a securing device with the following characteristics in its operational position: A base body which, with its bottom and a circumferential wall, defines a cylindrical space with a corresponding central longitudinal axis, the bottom features an opening whose longitudinal axis aligns with the central longitudinal axis the bottom features a ring-shaped channel which extends concentrically around the opening. at least an inner wall of the channel which is adjacent to the opening consists of a material which is plastically ductile under the application of pressure, a ring-shaped compact whose radial wall cross-section increases in size upwards from a lower free end, so that the inner wall of the channel deforms plastically, thereby reducing the cross section of the opening, after the compact is pressed into the channel.