Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2003
The CEQCSI software (Chemical EQuilibrium Calculation for the Steel Industry) was developed at IRSID under the guidance of Jean Morlet. This paper discusses the place of CEQCSI in the fast expanding field of Computational Thermodynamics packages, analyzes the major impact experimentation at Imphy had on its evolution, presents a few examples of industrial applications in ladle metallurgy and inclusions control, and finally evokes trends in the association of thermodynamic codes with CFD (computational fluid dynamics) codes and kinetic models.