Edgar Richard Wunsche

Edgar Richard Wunsche is past chairman of EMAR Holdings Ontario Limited, Whitby, Ontario, Canada, President and CEO of Engineered Metal Products Company (Canada) Ltd, Whitby, Ontario, EMPCO-FAB LTD, Whitby, Ontario, EMPCO Inc., Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

From their incorporation companies have been involved in basic engineering, design, supply, supervision of installation and commissioning of electrometallurgical production systems as well as complete electric arc furnaces or functional units and auxiliary equipment for Steel Mills. Companies pioneered new processes and novel progressive designs with emphasis on reliability and lucrativity of equipment operation as well as energy efficiency, ecological friendliness and improvement of safety and working conditions.

Affiliations

* Unione International d’Electrothermie;
* CSC/IEC, Technical Committee No. 27, Industrial Electro Heating Equipment;
* American Institute of Iron and Steel Engineers;
* American Institute of Metallurgical Engineers.

Publications

Papers

* Protection of winding of crucible type industrial induction steel melting furnaces, Elektrotechnik, Prague, 1958;

* Electric Arc Furnaces CKD, CKD Review vol. 6, Prague, 1959;

* Super Ultra High Power Operation of LASCO’s Arc Furnaces, (co-author G.E. Forward), International Congress UIE, Cannes, 1971;

* LASCO’s High Power Mini Mill Meltshop (co-author G.E. Forward), XX, EAF Conference, Toronto, 1971;

* Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking with Quasi-Submerged Arcs and Foamy Slags (co-author R. Simcoe), Iron and Steel Engineer, April 1984;

* UNILANCE, Combined Oxy-fuel Burner and Oxygen Lance, International Congress UIE, Stockholm, June 1984.

Book

* ELECTRIC ARC FURNACES, (co-author J. Dejl) SNTL, Prague, 1964

Patents

* Electromagnetic Braking and Stopping of Medium Profile Rolling Mill Products (Authors Recognition, Czechoslovakia 1964);
* Electrode Arms for EAF with electromagnetic shielding;
* Double Split Barrel Shaped Shell for Ultra High Power EAF;
* Forced Cooling Panel for EAF;
* “UNILANCE” Multipurpose Oxygen Lance and Burner for EAF;
* “SF-HOT” Horizontal Tapping for EAF;
* “UNIPROBE” Automatic Temperature Probe and Sampling Device for Metallurgical Furnaces (pending);
* Metallurgical Furnace with Scrap Metal Pre-heater and Dispenser “ROTOBIN” (pending);
* “UNITRODE” Multi Purpose, Multi-Oxy/Fuel Power Burner/Injector/Oxygen Lance Device (pending);
* “UNIJET” High Power, Replaceable Nozzle, Low Maintenance Wall Burner (pending);
* ”TURBOCOOL” Rifled Pipe/Tube Forced Cooling Components for Metallurgical Furnaces (pending);
* ”ARROWHEAD” Slag/Refractory Anchoring System for Water-cooled components of Metallurgical Furnaces (pending);
* “CuRe” Energy Saving Water-cooled Element for High Temperature Metallurgical Apparatus with Extended Service Life (pending);
* “UNIIGATE” Tunnel Self-Cleaning and Sealing Slag Door System (pending).