1196 results about "Continuous caster" patented technology

A real-time system and method for online monitoring a transient operation in a continuous casting process. The transient operation refers to, but is not limited to, submerged entry nozzle changes, flying tundish changes, product grade changes, etc. This invention treats the aforementioned transient operations as batch processes and utilizes multiway principal component analysis to develop a multivariate statistical model to characterize normal process transitions based on carefully selected historical process data. Such a model is used by an online monitoring system to determine if a continuous caster transient operation is normal. This monitoring system can further be used to predict an impending breakout, one type of catastrophic process failures which may occur in a continuous casting process, during the transient operation. Process variables that are most likely related to the predicted breakout are identified by the system such that appropriate control actions can be taken to prevent an actual breakout occurrence.

The invention provides a micro alloying SWRH87B hot rolled wire rod and a manufacturing method thereof, belonging to the technical field of hot rolled wire rod. In the invention, Cr and V micro alloying are adopted; double slag process high drawing carbon operation is used in a converter; end-point carbon is controlled at 0.40-0.60%, the steel tapping temperature is 1580-1620 DEG C, and the slag-blocked tapping is used; low nitrogen carburant is used for recarburization; Si-Ca-Ba is used for deoxidation; 600-800kg synthetic slag is added into each converter; oxygen activity is controlled below 10ppm by entering into an LF refining station, and the refined finishing slag sum of FeO and MnO is no more than 3%; inclusion modification treatment is carried out on the Ca-Si line; a billet in the size of 160mm*160mm is used, a casting mould is used for coordinating with final electromagnetic stirring (F-EMS); continuous casting machine whole protection, constant drawing speed casting and proper secondary cooling system are adopted; the initial rolling temperature is controlled at 1020-1150 DEG C which is conductive to welding the drawholes and increasing the probability of the drawholes welding; the water pre-cooling and phase transformation strengthening cooling technology is used to control the texture and the performance. The invention has the advantages that the aging time of the wire rod before the follow-up processing is shortened, the tensile strength thereof after aging time is larger than 1280MPa, and the area reduction rate is larger than 25%.

Disclosed is a method for producing aluminum drive shafts from molten aluminum alloy using a continuous caster to cast the alloy into a slab. The method comprises providing a molten aluminum alloy consisting essentially of 0.2 to 0.8 wt. % Si, 0.05 to 0.4 wt. % Cu, 0.45 to 1.2 wt. % Mg, 0.04 to 0.35 wt. % Cr, 0.7 wt. % max. Fe, 0.15 wt. % max. Mn, 0.25 wt. % max. Zn, 0.15 wt. % max. Ti, the remainder aluminum, incidental elements and impurities and providing a continuous caster such as a belt caster for continuously casting the molten aluminum alloy. The molten aluminum alloy is cast into a slab which is rolled into a sheet product. After solution heat treatment, the sheet product is formed into a tube having a seam which is welded to provide a seam welded tube. The seam welded tube is placed in a forming die and hydroformed to form the drive shaft.

The invention discloses a method for manufacturing a medium-strength aluminum alloy wire with the electric conductivity of 59 percent (International Annealed Copper Standard, IACS), and relates to a method for manufacturing a medium-strength aluminum alloy wire with high conductivity. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: (1) selecting an aluminum matrix and an aluminum intermediate alloy ingot; (2) performing on-the-spot sample analysis and adjustment, namely putting the selected aluminum ingot into a shaft furnace, melting to form molten aluminum, and refining by using a refining agent; (3) casting and crystallizing, namely allowing molten aluminum alloy in a kettle furnace to pass through a runner and filtering by using a ceramic filtering plate, adding rare earth to ensure that the content of the rare earth is 0.05 to 0.15 percent, feeding into an aluminum alloy continuous casting machine, performing continuous casting to form an aluminum alloy cast ingot, and rolling a medium-strength alloy rod by using an aluminum alloy continuous mill; (4) performing solid solution treatment and quenching, namely performing thermal homogenization treatment on the aluminum alloy rod; and (5) drawing, aging and twisting, namely drawing the aluminum alloy rod treated in the previous working procedure into an aluminum alloy wire with the required diameter on an aluminum alloy wire drawing machine, and twisting on a frame type wire twisting machine to obtain the medium-strength aluminum alloy wire with the electric conductivity of 59 percent IACS.

The invention provides a continuous casting bloom soft press technology based on tail end electromagnetic stirring and belongs to the field of metal casting. The continuous casting bloom soft press technology based on the tail end electromagnetic stirring is characterized in that after a tail end electromagnetic stirring device is arranged on a second cooling area, a previous air cooling area is straightened. The thickness of a liquid core controlling the position of the stirring device occupies 30% to 55% of the thickness of a casting blank through a solidification heat transmission mathematical model. Stirring current of the tail end electromagnetic stirring device is 350A to 750A and stirring frequency is 3Hz to 8Hz. When soft press and straightening are conducted simultaneously, complete solidification of liquid phase among columnar crystals is guaranteed and meanwhile total press amount of a press intersection is controlled to be 10mm to 25mm, liquid steel superheat degree of a tundish is 20 DEG C to 30DEG C, dragging speed of a continuous casting machine is 0.35m/min to 0.75m/min, and therefore internal quality of a continuous casting bloom is remarkably improved and high quality rolled metal is guaranteed. Continuous casting bloom bearing steel manufactured through the technology is continuously manufactured for over 10 boilers, occurrence of internal cracks is avoided, a central organization is dense and even, the rate that a center contracting hole <=1.0 reaches 97.54%, center C segregation is controlled to be under 1.06 and thus the internal quality of the bearing steel is remarkably improved.

The invention relates to a tundish flow control device for a slab casting machine, a preparation method of the tundish flow control device and a slagging method using the tundish flow control device, and belongs to the technical field of the ferrous metallurgy slab casting tundish technology. The tundish flow control device for the slab casting machine comprises a turbulence controller, a slag blockage weir and a slag blockage dam, and is characterized in that the upper edge of the slag blockage weir (5) is higher than the highest liquid level (10) of molten steel normally poured by the tundish, but is lower than the working face of tundish overflow port coating (1); the slag blockage weir (5) and the slag blockage dam (6) are vertically staggered; two ends of the slag blockage dam (6) are respectively provided with a through hole; a center distance a between the slag blockage weir (5) and the turbulence controller (4) is 400-600mm; and a center distance b between the slag blockage weir (5) and the slag blockage dam (6) is 300-400mm. After the tundish flow control device for the slab casting machine is adopted, slab tundish injection residue can be reduced by more than 25%, the service life of the flow control device is improved by one time and is above 14 hours, and the production cost of continuous casting refractory material is lowered by more than 30%.

A method for capping a nickel and stainless steel continuous casting tail billet comprises the following steps: I. In a continuous casting process, when steel water in a tundish has 7.9 tons to 8.1 tons left, the casting speed is gradually reduced; II. In the process of when the steel water is reduced to 4.9 tons to 5.1 tons from 6.9 tons to 7.1 tons, the casting speed is kept unchanged; III. Whenthe steel water is reduced from 4.9 tons to 5.1 tons, residue dragging begins; IV. When the steel water is reduced from 3.9 tons to 4.1 tons, the casting speed is kept at 0.4 plus or minus 0.05m/min;V. When the steel water is reduced from 2.9 tons to 3.1 tons, residue dragging begins and water cooling is carried out, and the casting speed is reduced to 0.1 plus or minus 0.05m/min slowly; VI. When the steel water is reduced to 1.4 tons to 1.6 tons, the casting speed is kept at 0.1 plus or minus 0.05m/min; VII. Good capping is ensured, and the continuous casting speed is increased; and VIII. When a tail end of the continuous casting billet goes out of a mould, good capping is ensured again, and the speed is increased to pull the continuous casting billet out of a continuous caster. The method for capping the nickel and stainless steel continuous casting tail billet has safe operation and short capping time.

The invention relates to a processing method for producing low-cost high-formability IF (interstitial-free) steel, which is based on thin-slab continuous casting and rolling and adopts a ferrite rolling process to produce the IF steel, belonging to the technical field of IF steel production. The processing method comprises the following working procedures of steelmaking, continuous casting, heating, rolling, cooling and coiling. A thin-slab continuous casting machine is adopted, the thickness of a continuous casting slab is at most 100mm, and the charging temperature is at least 880 DEG C. During hot rolling, a roughing mil and a finishing mill keep a continuous rolling relationship and keep micro-tension control, and water cooling equipment is used between the roughing mil and the finishing mill and is used for uniformly reducing the temperature of an intermediate slab with a thickness of 12-25mm from the temperature at least 950 DEG C of the outlet of the roughing mil into the range of 750-850 DEG C. Finish rolling is carried out in a ferrite area, and a lubrication rolling technology is adopted. The coiling temperature is higher and is 680-760 DEG C, slow cooling is carried out after coiling, and thereby an annealing process is finished. The invention provides a method for obtaining high-formability hot rolled sheets without cold rolling and cover annealing. The method has the advantages of being simple in process, low in cost, high in production efficiency, short in flow and the like, and the formability of products is higher.

The invention discloses a continuous casting process for high-class high-quality chain steel. According to the continuous casting process, a method of process control is adopted, a large billet caster is adopted for continuous casting, the portion from a large ladle to a tundish and the portion from the tundish to a crystallizer are poured in a protecting mode, argon gas is filled in the tundish before pouring, the portion from the steel ladle to the tundish is poured in a protecting mode through a long nozzle argon seal, the portion from the tundish to the crystallizer is poured in a protecting mode through a high-quality whole internally-installed submerged nozzle, a high-quality current stabilizer is adopted in the tundish impact area, a covering agent is used in molten steel in the tundish, the temperature of the tundish is measured continuously, automatic water distribution is carried out in the crystallizer and for secondary cooling, and the crystallizer is stirred in an electromagnetic mode and pressed dynamically and slightly. According to the continuous casting process, the internal and external quality of a casting blank is good, no connection blanks and slag pits exist in the surface, and performance of cogging rolled steel meets requirements of users.

The present invention discloses method and apparatus for producing composite plate and belt of different metal materials, and relates to continuous casting and continuous rolling technology in metallurgical industry. The present invention features that in the same continuous casting machine, 2 or 3 crystallizers are made to operate simultaneously to realize the continuous casting and continuous rolling of single-sided and double-sided composite metal plate and belt of different kinds of metal. The crystallizer consists of four, one upper, one lower and two side, synchronously moving steel belts, and on the upper cooling steel belt holder, there are regulators for both horizontal and vertical regulation. The composite plate or belt blank from the crysrtallizers is treated through the blooming mill, shearing machine, soaking furnace, finishing mill and winding machine to produce composite plate and belt in required sizes.

Surface defects in rolled steel are remedied by quenching a surface layer of the steel product downstream of the caster and upstream of the reheat furnace by transversely differentiated quenching to match the transverse temperature profile of the steel product. The flow rate of the quench spray is differentially adjustable across the width and optionally the length of the steel product. An array of spray nozzles controlled in transversely or longitudinally arranged groups provides the quench spray.

The invention belongs to the metallurgical equipment field, which relates to a testing system for an impact force of a secondary cooling nozzle of a slab caster. The invention is characterized in that a waterproof strain type micro force value sensor (8) is fixed on a sensing shift mechanism, the waterproof strain type micro force value sensor (8) is driven to shift to a testing position through the sensing shift mechanism, a nozzle is fixed on a nozzle shifting mechanism, a nozzle (3) is arranged downwards, the nozzle (3) is shifted to the upper portion of the waterproof strain type micro force value sensor (8) through the nozzle (3) shifting mechanism, the nozzle (3) sprays water, the waterproof strain type micro force value sensor (8) is driven to shift through the sensing shift mechanism, a strain type electric signal is produced by a spraying percussive force in different space which is given by the waterproof strain type micro force value sensor (8), the signal is amplified through a signal conditioner 10, a data which is output by the signal conditioner 10 is transmitted to a data collecting and analyzing unit (11) of a computer, and an inundation distributing graph of three-dimensional water spraying percussive force is given. The invention can accurately measure the percussive force characteristics of a nozzle, which improves measuring accuracy, and reduces measuring cost.

The invention discloses a method and a device for measuring and controlling casting powder of a continuous caster crystallizer. The method comprises the steps as follows: obtaining the position Lslag of casting powder according to the length of a projecting line on one side wall of the crystallizer when laser is projected on the upper surface of casting powder and the side wall of the crystallizer; obtaining the smoothness variation of the surface of casting powder according to the laser projection on the upper surface of casting powder; obtaining the liquid level Lsteel of the crystallizer with a liquid level detection system; obtaining the thickness L of casting powder according to the formula that L equals Lsteel minus Lslag, and the thickness variation of casting powder; and controlling the casting powder feeding operation of casting powder feeding equipment according to the thickness and the thickness variation. The device comprises a crystallizer casting powder position detecting system, the crystallizer liquid level detection system and an automatic casting powder feeding system, wherein the crystallizer casting powder position detecting system comprises a laser source, monitoring equipment, a processor, a main control computer and an on-site display terminal. According to the invention, close-loop control of casting powder can be realized; casting powder feeding quantity can be counted in a real-time manner; and casting powder performance tracking is realized.

The invention discloses a method for producing ultra-thin hot rolling strip steel with variable/constant specification by adopting a semi-endless technology; qualified molten steel after refining is sent to a first continuous caster and a second continuous caster to be cast into a flat blank; the semi-endless flat blank cast by the first continuous caster enters a first roller-hearth type soaking furnace for being heated at the temperature of 1050-1150 DEG C, which is sent to a high pressure water descaler at a rolling mill area for the removal of iron scale on the surface of the flat blank and is rolled into the ultra-thin hot rolling strip steel with the thickness being 0.8-1.8mm and the width being 1229-1265mm by F1-F7 rolling mills of a fine continuous rolling mill group; the hot rolling strip steel within the final rolling temperature rang of 860 DEG C to 880 DEG C enters a laminar flow cooler for cooling and is quickly cut by a high-speed flying shear according to the weight of each steel coil; the cut strip steel is alternately coiled by a first coiling machine or a second coiling machine into a finished coil with three or four variable/constant specifications. The ultra-thin hot rolling strip steel produced by the method can expand the products of the strip steel, stabilize rolling condition, lower abrasion of rollers, reduce the times of band penetration and whipping, decrease the loss of waste head and crop end of the products and enhance the yield of the products and productivity.

The invention discloses a compact continuous casting and tandem rolling method for producing hot rolling strip steel, including the following steps: 1) liquid molten steel passes through a long nozzle from a ladle to be cast to a pouring box, flows through a submerged nozzle from the pouring box to be cast in a crystallizer of a continuous caster and is continuously cooled in the continuous caster to form a casting blank; 2) a shearing machine is used for cutting a flat blank into certain size; 3) the flat blank enters a tunnel roller hearth heating furnace for heating; 4) the continuous caster is provided with a plurality of casting flows, one of which is in collineation with a rolling mill, the casting blank of other flows passes through a swinging section and is converged with the casting blank of the collinear flow and then is descaled by high pressure water; 5) the casting blank carries out rough rolling into an intermediate blank by a roughing mill group; 6) the intermediate blank is coiled and decoiled by a hot coiling box; 7) the head and the tail of the decoiled intermediate blank are cut and descaling by high pressure water is carried out to the decoiled intermediate blank; 8) the intermediate blank carries out finish rolling into a steel strip with standard thickness; 9) the steel strip is coiled into a finished steel coil by laminar flow cooling. The method is characterized by stable production technique, shorter production line, low equipment investment and high utilization rate of energy in the whole production process, etc.

The present invention relates to a vertical seamless steel pipe hollow pipe billet continuous casting machine. It is characterized by that it utilizes combination of internal crystallizer and external crystallizer to produce hollow pipe billets with various specification. Said continuous casting machine consists of internal crystallizer, external crystallizer, carryover pinch roll, dummy ingot cutting car and turnover roller way equipment. Said invention also provides their connection mode and concrete operation method of said continuous casting machine.

The invention discloses a production method for eliminating edge defects of hot rolled strip steel. The process flow comprises the following steps of: desulfurizing liquid iron; smelting by using a converter; performing external refining; continuously casting medium-thin slabs; heating; performing rough rolling; performing finish rolling; performing laminar cooling; and reeling. The method is characterized in that: a vertical bending type medium-thin slab continuous casting machine is adopted in the continuous casting process; the casting speed of the continuous casting machine is 1.5 to 4.0 m/min; an edge shielding baffle plate is arranged in a continuous casting secondary cooling region or an edge nozzle in the horizontal section of the continuous casting machine is closed; an intermittent side pressure and intermittent descaling method is adopted in a hot rolling rough rolling process; and a rough rolled vertical roll adopts a box-shaped hole type. The method has the advantages that: the continuous casting billet avoids a low-temperature fragile region at a straightening section and eliminates edge cross crack; and high temperature-reducing speed is avoided during the contact of the hot rolled strip steel edge part and the rough rolled vertical roll and the plasticity of the edge part is improved. By the method, the edge defects of the hot rolled strip steel can be eliminated and energy can be saved by 30 percent.

Disclosed are a continuous casting and rolling device and a process for a composite plate. The device comprises a continuous casting machine body, two steel ladle rotary tables, a tundish mounting platform, two tundishes, two crystallizers, a composite area, a secondary cooling area, extrusion rollers, hold-down rollers, a flame cutting device, a descaling machine, a tension leveler and a continuous rolling unit, the two tundishes are mounted below the different steel ladle rotary tables through the tundish mounting platform, the crystallizers are disposed below the tundishes, the composite area is disposed below the two crystallizers, the extrusion rollers and the hold-down rollers are arranged below the composite area, the secondary cooling area is located below the hold-down rollers, and a horizontal outlet end of the secondary cooling area is sequentially connected with the tension leveler, the flame cutting device, the descaling machine and the continuous rolling unit. The continuous casting and rolling device and the process for the composite plate have the advantages that the width of a composite plate blank can be adjusted, continuous production can be achieved, the process is simple, costs are low, the efficiency is high, operation and controlling are convenient, and the like.

The invention discloses a continuous casting and tandem rolling method for producing hot rolling strip steel by using medium sheet billet, including the following steps: 1) liquid molten steel passes through a long nozzle from a ladle to be cast to a pouring box, flows through a submerged nozzle from the pouring box to be cast in a crystallizer of a continuous caster and is continuously cooled in the continuous caster to form a casting blank; 2) the casting blank enters a short tunnel roller hearth type heating furnace for heating; 3) a technology of converging a plurality of casting flows is adopted, one of the casting flows is in collineation with a rolling mill, the casting blank of other flows passes through a swinging section and is converged with the casting blank of the collinear flow, then passes through a walking beam and a holding zone of the roller hearth complex type heating furnace which is provided with a roller way and finally enters high pressure water for descaling; 4) the casting blank is prepared into an intermediate blank by rough rolling; 6) the intermediate blank carries out finish rolling into a steel strip with standard thickness; 7) the steel strip is cooled and coiled into the finished steel coil. The method can reduce investment, save energy resource, improve the quality of products, expand the varieties of the products and lower production cost.

The invention discloses low-temperature-resistant hot-rolled angle steel and a production method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of metallurgy. The angle steel consists of the following chemical components in percentage by mass: 0.10-0.15% of C, 0.20-0.50% of Si, 1.3-1.7% of Mn, 0.04-0.06% of V, 0.005-0.015% of Al, less than or equal to 0.01% of N, less than or equal to 0.006% of O, less than or equal to 0.020% of P, less than or equal to 0.010% of S and the balance Fe and inevitable impurities. The production method for the low-temperature-resistant hot-rolled angle steel comprises the following steps: molten iron pre-desulfurization, converter smelting, LF refining, and a continuous-casting and rolling process by a billet continuous casting machine, wherein sulfur content of the molten iron after desulfurization is less than or equal to 0.005wt%. According to the low-temperature-resistant hot-rolled angle steel and the production method thereof, a vanadium micro-alloying process and a steelmaking process are adopted, the control is simple and the alloy recovery rate is stable. The low-temperature-resistant hot-rolled angle steel is good in performance, and has impact energy greater than or equal to 100J at a temperature of (-)40 DEG C.