Master Thesis: Optimizing billet microstructure to reduce defects through casting parameter control

What do you get?

You will be a part of a company doing the right thing because its right, that already today has a world-leading CO2 position and is doing its best to create a sustainable society.

Ovako is an employer for you who likes the smaller organizations efficient decisions and the larger organizations security. At Ovako you can expect an energetic and forward-leaning place of work, with open discussions, good camaraderie and great organizational drive. As an employee you get (among other things)

• A workplace with focus on employee health, safety and wellbeing
• Great personal responsibility and freedom to how you solve your tasks
• A culture that likes to be challenged and welcomes new ideas that improves
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment with engaged and experiences coworkers

Backgrund and purpose

• For certain steel grades we experience more defects in products from #200 billets than in products from #165
• We want to obtain a better understanding of how casting parameters influence the microstructure for #200 billets

Research question

• Study the microstructure in #200 and #165 cast billets of certain steel produced by continuous casting
• How can we improve the microstructure of #200 billets to reduce defects in the rolled bars.
• The expected result is that we will obtain a better understanding of how the microstructure of different steel grades can be optimized by controlling the casting parameters for #200 billets

If you have any questions, you are most welcome to contact: 

Christina Viklund White, Technical Manager
Christina.viklund.white@ovako.com

Your profile

• Master student
• Materials Science or Metallurgical Engineering

Information & other

Compensation

Ovako will compensate you for completed master thesis corrsponding to a value per "högskolepoäng". We can also in most cases assist with accomodation during the time you are performing your master thesis with us. Ovako will support with travel to and from our sites for interviews, eventual trips back to the university for meetings with supervisor and equivalent.

Recruitment

Selection will be ongoing and during the process you will get the chance to meet potential supervisors, relevant managers and stakeholder. The process will include ability tests, interviews, background check and references.