62nd Indian Foundry Congress
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IIF Transactions 2014 |
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| Sr. No. | Paper Title | Author(s) | Company/Institution |
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| 1 | UNIDO – ICAMT Project on Technology Upgradation and Productivity Enhancement of Foundry Industry at Coimbatore and Belgaum | Govind B S | UNIDO-ICAMT, Bengaluru |
| 2 | Resource Efficiency for Sustainability in Ferrous Foundries (A Case of Kolhapur MSME Cluster) | E Nand Gopal, D Ramesh | The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi |
| 3 | Development of Large Thickness Alloy Steel Castings for Fossil-based Power Plant Equipments Using Casting Simulation | Manjunatha T.M., Tushar Dave, Lavin Agrawal, Badarinath Kalkunte | Central FFP, BHEL, Haridwar, ESI India, Bengaluru Calcom ESI, Switzerland |
| 4 | Failure Investigation of Cast Diesel Electric Loco Wheel | M. K. Mukhopadhyay | Retd Dy Chief Chemist & Metallurgist, Indian Railways |
| 5 | Analysis of Sand Related Defects in Iron & Steel Castings- Supported by Some Industrial Case Studies & Simulation Results | Tapan Roy | Texmaco Rail & Engg. Ltd., Kolkata |
| 6 | Indian Foundry Industry – Opportunities and Challenges* | John Flintham | Amtek Auto Ltd. |
| 7 | Applying the Principle of 7-I’s to Improve Technology Transfer | Thomas Prucha | American Foundry Society, USA |
| 8 | Post-Recession Growth from 2011 and beyond : Continual Growth or Caution? | Satyen Prabhu / Graham Cooper | Inductotherm, USA |
| 9 | Foundry Industry – Global Scenario* | Andrew Turner | FESA, UK |
| 10 | Indian Aluminium Casting Industries : Prospects & Problems* | Prof. KSS Murthy | Aluminium Association of India, Bengaluru |
| 11 | The Importance of Process Control in Aluminium Foundries | Andy Moores | Foseco Europe, C/o. Foseco India Ltd, Pune |
| 12 | Advancements in Phenolic Urethane Technology for Aluminium Castings | V.Varghese, Joe Muniza | ASK-Chemicals India, Pune |
| 13 | How to Solve Shrinkage Porosity in the Aluminum Gravity Die Castings? — (A shop floor experience, and 4 case studies). | Muthiah Thirugnanam | Chennai |
| 14 | Green Manufacturing | Surya Prakash | Brakes India Ltd, Sholinghur, TN. |
| 15 | Green Foundry Initiatives at Ammarun Foundries | N. Visvanathan | Ammarun Foundries, Coimbatore |
| 16 | Controlling Internal Pollution in a Modern Foundry | Joydip Ghosh, Saurav Kumar | Disa India Ltd, Bengaluru |
| 17 | Foundry Metallurgy Park – with Contifur as a Source of Molten Iron | Ram Singh, Mukesh Bhandari | Electrotherm (India) Ltd, Ahmedabad |
| 18 | Predictive Control : One Step Ahead in Automated Pouring with a Stopper | Herve Doisy | Foseco Europe |
| 19 | New Variant Silica Mix for Modern Coreless Induction Furnace | Andrew Fowler | Calderys Refractories Solutions, Europe |
| 20 | Advances in Melting Technology through Vacuum Degassing and Controlled Atmosphere Furnaces | Prakash Chaubal | Inductotherm India Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad |
| 21 | Latest Trends in Die Design by Exploiting Design & Simulation Software | Jayesh M. Rathod | Godrej Tooling Div. Vikhroli, Mumbai |
| 22 | Innovation in Magnesium Alloys Component Casting Technology | U.T.S. Pillai | NIIST, CSIR, Thiruvanathapuram |
| 23 | Studies to Improve the Mechanical Properties of 319 Aluminium Alloy by Magnesium Addition | M. C. Shaji, K. K. Ravikumar, M. Ravi and K. Sukumaran | CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram |
| 24 | Foundry Project Planning – Some Pit Falls | Ziauddin | Amtek Auto Ltd., New Delhi |
| 25 | Optimising Productivity in Foundry | Laxman Sundar | Neosym Industry Ltd., Pune |
| 26 | An Overview of the Automated Pouring Process | William R. Pflug | Inductotherm, USA |
| 27 | Changes, Challenges & Solution of Foundry Industry | Dr. Nithyanand | Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Coimbatore |
| 30 | Foundry Consultant – Your Friend Indeed | Gyanendra Srivastava, R. C. Kothari | Jaipur, and Vadodara |
| 29 | Growth Assurance – In Uncertain Economic Times | Dilip K. Pithadia | Pithadia Foundation, USA |
| 30 | Cooling Curve Analysis – A Mature Melt Quality Control Technique – WEBINAR (from USA) | Prof. Doru Stefanescu | Ohio State Uni., and Unviersity of Alabama, USA |
| 31 | Effect of Mould Rotation Speed and Pouring Temperature on Hardness and Tensile Strength of Eutectic Al-Si alloy in Vertical Centrifugal Casting | Vikram B. Patel, Prof. J. L. Juneja, Prof. K. Babapai | U. V. Patel College of Engineering. Ganpat University (Guj.) |
| 32 | Development of High Strength Al-Zn-Mg Alloys for Automotive Application | P. K. Mandal, P. K. Ghosh | IIT Roorkee, MMED UK |
| 33 | Study of Solute Effect on Grain Refinement of Al Alloys | Dr. Ashok Sharma | Malavaiya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur |
| 34 | Thermal Analysis of LM-20 Alloy | Dr.S. M. Jigajinni, S. A. Kori, K. Venkateswarlu | Basaveshwar Engg. College Bagalkot (Karnataka) |
| 35 | Experiences in Developing eLearning Training Modules for Green Sand Practice on Bentonite | Steve Robinson | Amcol, USA |
| 36 | Study of Shrinking Characteristics of Grey Iron Inoculated with Different Inoculants | Oddvar Knustad, Lena Magnusson Åberg. | Elkem AS, Norway |
| 37 | A New Perspective on Metal Flow Characteristics of Ductile Iron | V. S. Saravanan | Indo Shell Cast Pvt Ltd. Coimbatore |
| 38 | Shell Process – Transition from Warm Coating to Hot Coating Technique | Dipak Ghosh | Forace Polymers Pvt. Ltd, Haridwar |
| 39 | New Refractory Technology for Melting Iron & Steel Alloys in CIF (T) | Pete Satre, Charles Essman | Allied Mineral Products, Inc., USA |
| 40 | 3D Printing Technology to produce Moulds / Cores Layer by Layer* (T) | Said Omar | ExOne GmbH, Germany |
| 41 | Castings – Get them Right … Every time!! With ProCAST/QuikCAST* (T) | Marco Aloe | ESI, Switzerland |
| 42 | Towards an Energy Efficient Iron Foundry : Examples of Energy Savings in an Existing Plant* | David Mertens | South Africa |
| 43 | Best Practices for the Production of Investment Castings | Danilo Frulli | Imerys, Europe |
| 44 | Design of an investment casting foundry: | Vivek Sangle | Incastt Machines, Mysore |
| 45 | Custom Implants for Mandible, using Rapid Prototyping-assisted Casting | Dr. A. M. Kuthe | Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur |
| 46 | Effect of Feeders on Distortion of Investment-cast Product | Prof. (Mrs) Sangita Bansode,Dr. V. M. Phalle, Dr. S S Mantha | K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidya Vihar, Mumbai |
| 47 | Investment Casting – Vision 2020* | Manthan Oza | Modtech, Ahmedabad |
| 48 | Activity Based Costing (ABC) Concept on Foundry Industries | Prof. Shanthanu | Ahmedabad |
| 49 | Effect of Pre-Conditioning in Grey & Ductile Iron | Kumar Kislay, Souvik C, Nadimuthu S.,Srikanth Sivaraman | Snam Alloys Pvt. Ltd., Hosur (TN) |
| 50 | Carbides in Ductile Iron Castings | Prof. S. K. Paknikar | Pune |
| 51 | Computer Aided Casting Simulation Software – A Right Tool to get Riserless Ductile Iron Castings | Dr. Goutam Sutradhar | Jadavpur University, Kolkata |
| 52 | Tabletop Integrated Melting, Pouring and Data Acquisition System for Training and Research Purposes | Himanshu Khandelwal, B. Ravi | IIT Bombay, Mumbai |
| 53 | A hybrid Approach for Casting Process Simulation by Combining FEM and VEM for Defect Minimization with Experimental Validation | C. M. Choudhari, B. E. Narkhede, S. K. Mahajan | V.J.T.I., Mumbai |
| 54 | Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Austempered Gray Cast Iron | Tanmoy Sarkar, S. Kayal, R. Beherab, S. Haidar, G. Sutradhar | Jadavpur University, Kolkata and other institutions |
| 55 | Effect of Inoculants and Wall Thickness on Structure – Properties of Spheroidal Graphite Cast Iron | Dr. K. K. Singh | NIFFT, Ranchi |
| 56 | Proactive Fail Safe Roadmap: Need of Medium Scale Foundry | Upendra Desai | KOEL, Pune |
| * Text of these papers has not been received. Respective Author will make his presentation in Tech Papers Session. “(T)” indicates that either the presentation is a TechMart Presentation, or some of its content may be considered TechMart. |

