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The BLEMAB project was completed on June 30, 2024, following four years of activity. The subsequent slides present the primary outcomes.
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Workshop entitled "Instrumentation for Blast Furnace Process Control" held in Stockholm at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology on 19 October 2023.
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A new eMPVP probe, made by AMMR with increased temperature resistance, was tested at blast furnace no. 2 in Bremen on 6 September 2023.
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Two muon detectors have been installed at blast furnace No.2 of the Arcelor Mittal steelworks in Bremen to perform the world's first ever simultaneous stereoscopic muography!
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The second muon tracking handling system sent from RINA Castel Romano to INFN in Florence
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Arrival of the muon tracking handling system at INFN in Florence
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Muon tracking handling system under construction at CSM laboratory. The scintillator planes can rotate around one horizontal axis and the rotation of the system can be controlled remotely. The maximum allowed rotation is approximately +- 60° with respect to the vertical axis. KTH has employed a 2D slot Discrete Element (DEM) model to generate...
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The muon tracking module handling system is being set up. KTH model for evaluating the burden distribution inside blast furnace is divided into two sub models: Burden charging and Burden descent models. The Burden charging model is expected to estimate the formation of new stock line and evaluate radial ore to coke distribution in the…
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The images display the multipoint vertical probing trial sequence. The last image (3D CAD model) shows the enhanced multi-point vertical probe which will be used in the project BLEMAB. This probe is made by ArcelorMittal Maizeries Research SA.

RINA-CSM and INFN have worked on the design and implementation of a muon detector housing system to protect the detector from dust and mechanical shocks. This system must also guarantee the tilting of the detector in order to change its elevation angle. It is foreseen that the instrument can be oriented both towards the blast…
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• Simulation based on GEANT4: a toolkit for simulating the passage of particles through matter. • It contains a realistic representation of the blast furnace, with all its elements and a realistic muons generator, able to reproduce the energy and angular distribution of the real cosmic-rays. • The BLEMAB detector reproduced along with its response…
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In the last six months, RINA-CSM completed the design of the mobile detector housing and started its assembly. Delivery of the first system to INFN is scheduled for early 2022. The project partner KTH in Stockholm/ Sweden intents to build a semi-empirical mathematical model based on coupling between two different methods, the Discrete Element method…
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