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!
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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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Mats Hillert has shown [*] that what is called a Phase Diagram is derivable from a projection in a so-called Property Diagram. The (molar) Gibbs Energy as the property is plotted along the z-axis as a function of two other variables x and y. For binary systems, for example, T equals y and the mole
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In the 2nd part of this blog post, we will see how to export the data we generated in the Part I to Excel. Let us start with the Results window from the last blog. On the menu bar, we click on “Output”->”Save or Print”->”Save or Print As” Figure 1 A window will pop up,
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GTT was represented at the TMS 2019! The TMS (https://www.tms.org/TMS2019) is a huge annual conference, organized by the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society in the United States. This year the conference took place in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Stephan Petersen gave a presentation at one of the symposia of REWAS 2019, which focuses on Manufacturing
A customer has asked me: “Is it possible to export/import data to and from FactSage? For instance, I would like to do a series of calculations for different initial chemical compositions of the system and it would be very useful to import all the compositions automatically from an Excel table into FactSage”. Yes, it is
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Ex Mente Technologies and GTT-Technologies are excited to announce the first commercial release of ChemAppPy! ChemAppPy is a Python package that makes ChemApp, the thermochemistry library developed by GTT-Technologies, available in Python 3.6+. It includes additional tools that make thermochemical calculations easier and quicker to do. GTT are the original developers of ChemApp, a powerful
In a series of posts, we will focus on the relation between phase diagrams, Gibbs energy functions and activities. Let us begin with the Al-Cu phase diagram at a temperature of 500 °C. In this blog post we will work exclusively with the FactSage Education Package. Let us suppose we have generated an Al-Cu phase-diagram
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A customer has asked me: “How can I include an experimental point on a figure generated in FactSage ?”. The procedure is relatively simple. Suppose that you have generated a curve in FactSage like the one below. Representing the Molar Gibbs Energy of the γ phase in the Fe-C system at 1000°C as a function
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