HIGH-TEMPERATURE PROCESSING AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF THERMAL PLASMASIN NORWAY

This report overviews past and present thermal plasma research activit ies in Norway. Two of the main areas are applications of plasma techno logy in silicon and ferrosilicon processing and numerical modelling of transferred and free-burning arcs in reactor or furnace environments. Some results are proprietary to industrial companies and cannot be di scussed here. AC arcs are also being studied. The work described has p rimarily been done in Trondheim at the research institute SINTEF Metal lurgy and by Dr.ing. students at the Norwegian Institute of Technology , Department of Metallurgy.