14-15 May 2019 / Instituto Argentino de Siderurgia
New Trends on the Use of Refractory Materials in the Iron and Steel Industry
Reactivity and corrosion - Impact on Performances, Cleanliness and Metal Quality.
Professor
Prof. Jacques Poirier
He received a M.Sc. degree in Material Science, INSA, 1980 and subsequently a Ph.D. degree from the University of Orleans in 1983.
His research activities are the corrosion of refractory materials by gases, metals and liquid oxides at high temperature, evolution of mineral phases and glasses at high temperature, applications of the thermodynamic calculations to refractories design, development of better-adapted refractory materials for specific applications (steel making, none ferrous metallurgy, cement, incineration, biomass gasification and new energies). He has published over 130 articles in journals and given more than 250 oral presentations. J. Poirier has co-authored 10 books. He has 15 patents and has graduated 22 Ph.D. students.
He serves on the Executive of the “Groupe Français de la Céramique” and he is a member of the Federation for International Refractories Research and Education (FIRE).