Mukesh Sharma

• Created nozzle clog index for slide gate and stopper rod configurations, studied clogged nozzle materials using SEM and FACTSAGE
• Participated in steelmaking production trials and presented results
• Created regression models in Minitab for improving melt shop productivity
• Used Factsage to create thermodynamic models for process improvements
• Investigated steelmaking process and communicated result to operation team leading to successful heat trial with low sulphur steelmaking
• Used XRD microprobe analysis to study slags for low sulfur target steel and communicated to AISTech 2025
• Created Excel macro program to delineate heat reports in a meaningful way to operations and planning team

• Established method to estimate F value for scaled water model for a steel continuous caster from particle image velocimetry data

• Created a mass balance for elements at Desulf and BOF in Excel.
• Created subroutines in Python to calculate liquid slag capacity and sulfur partition.
• I participated in two trials for synthetic slag and presented a report to the concerned parties.
• Participated in meetings with the vendor to discuss and mitigate clogging and SEN breakage problems in continuous casting.
• Created a roadmap and action plan to improve BOF metallic yield.
• Collected slag data and created an action plan for ladle slag conditioning to improve slag desulfurization capacity and enhance clean steel practices.
• Collaborated with the Blast Furnace team and the top-down Basic Oxygen Furnace team to reduce overall processing time and improve steelmaking productivity at Desulf, to enhance overall process time and efficiency.
• Estimated process capability to identify optimum reagent consumption at desulfurization in Minitab.
• Created a regression model and multi-objective optimization for iron loss at desulfurization.
• Analyzed literature to create a routine for reagent purity in steelmaking.
• Analyzed literature to identify potential synthetic slag compositions for optimum cost and reagent efficiency for liquid steel processing.

Conducted an extensive literature survey on the effect of hydrogen blend on the embrittlement of line pipe steel.

• Automated data transfer from metrology and metallurgical measurements to the customer-provided lot authorization template enhances efficiency by 300%.
• Performed first-off inspections on tubular products using Zeiss CALYPSO CMM, Contracer, burst test, Shadowgraph, roughness measurements, microhardness tester, and microstructure analysis.
• Helped with PPAP, DOE, and CIP.
• Worked with engineers to measure dimensions manually from drawings provided by international customers.

• Thermodynamics of materials, Advanced iron and steelmaking, Mass transfer

• Creation of a nano composite solder alloy with the team, published a review paper on plasma electrolytic oxidation.per on plasma electroytic oxidation

• Thermodynamics of materials

• Direct reduction iron making: improve the productivity of iron ore-carbon composite pellets in ITmk3, modeling, and experiment, published results in a peer-reviewed journal.

• Rodding department - cast iron production from 3 induction furnaces of 1 ton capacity each