In Acta Chemica Scandinavica Gunnar Eriksson published a series of publications which culminated in 1971 in the third paper titled SOLGAS, a Computer Program for Calculating the Composition and Heat Condition of an Equilibrium Mixture. [1] In the abstract he stated: “A computer program named SOLGAS is described. SOLGAS is a program for calculating equilibrium […]
Please note that SimuSage has been discontinued.We recommend ChemApp for Python and FactFlow, embedded in the FactSage package, as alternative process simulation tools. In connection with the Industry 4.0 initiative, tools for process simulation and process optimization are recently gaining in importance. In the context of metallurgy, its digitalization will work as an enabler of
Please note that SimuSage has been discontinued. We recommend ChemApp for Python and FactFlow, embedded in the FactSage package, as alternative process simulation tools. In recent years, there has been a continuous societal and industrial effort to promote the so-called „circular economy“. According to this paradigm, for producing engineering materials in general, and metals and
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In this blog post we will see how to interpret the phase activity of a phase which does not form in equilibrium for a given temperature and pressure. For this, we will consider an Al-Cu alloy containing 0.01 mol% Cu at a temperature of 500°C and at a pressure of 1 atm and we will
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Please note that SimuSage has been discontinued. We recommend ChemApp for Python and FactFlow, embedded in the FactSage package, as alternative process simulation tools. Harvey and Gheribi[1] developed a thermochemistry-based model for the iron blast furnace. In their work, the corresponding process model was developed with a flowsheeting approach based on the connected local equilibrium
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Sometime ago a customer asked me how to find out if Ca2SiO4 is included in a certain database. Since the answer to this question can be really useful for customers in general, I decided to write this blog on the subject. We will define a substance with a defined chemical composition as a chemical species.
GTT-Technologies yearly invites users of its software family to join the GTT Users’ Meeting. Because of the CoViD-19 Pandemia, the usual face-to-face meeting will exceptionally not take place this year. Feedback from our customers made clear to us that there is a strong interest in alternative formats of the GTT Users’ Meeting. Therefore, we are
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We at GTT are very happy that Klaus Hack was awarded the Hume-Rothery Prize 2020. This prize is awarded every year by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining of the United Kingdom in recognition of distinguished achievements concerned with phase relationships in metallic materials or non-metallic materials of metallurgical interest. Congratulations Klaus!
Hume-Rothery prize awarded to Klaus Hack Read More »
To enable academic institutions who rely on the use of FactSage in classroom instruction to students during the coming months, GTT would like to help you make the transition to “distance learning” education easier. If you normally use a FactSage server/client installation at your institute to organize your course that includes hands-on training with FactSage,
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The loss of copper in the converting process through its incorporation to the converter slag represents a major problem in the copper metallurgy. There are two important mechanisms for this phenomenon: the physicochemical and the mechanical one. The mechanical mechanism, i.e. the mechanical entrapment of matte or of metallic copper inside the slag, is by
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