Abstract:
The present invention provides continuous casting-milling equipment and method capable of switching between continuous and batch milling, which increase the process yield rate by reducing the portion which is unavoidably processed as scrap, when switching casting or at an initial stage. The continuous casting-milling equipment comprises: a casting unit; at least two rolling units; and a coil box arranged between the rolling units. The continuous casting-milling method comprises: a casting step for producing a slab; a first rolling step which reduces the thickness of the slab; a cutting step of cutting a predetermined distance from a front end portion of the slab at the initial stage of casting; a passing step of passing the continuously supplied slab through the coil box; and a second rolling step which reduces the thickness of the passed slab.
Abstract:
Rolling plant (10) comprising at least: a continuous casting device (11); a tunnel furnace (15) for maintenance/equalization and possible heating; a rolling train consisting of a roughing train comprising from 1 to 4 rolling stands (18a, 18b, 18c) and a finishing train comprising from 3 to 7 stands (21a-21e); a rapid heating unit (20), with elements able to be selectively activated, interposed between the roughing train and the finishing train. For each lay-out of the rolling line (10), the position of the rapid heating unit (20) which defines the number of stands (18a, 18b, 18c) which form the roughing train, disposed upstream of the unit (20), and the number of stands (21a-21e) which form the finishing train, disposed downstream of the unit (20), is calculated as a function of the product of the thickness and speed of the thin slab. The product is in turn a function of the hourly productivity in tons/hour desired to be obtained, and is made to work either in coil-to-coil mode, or in semi-endless mode or in endless mode. One of the three modes of the rolling process is selected according to the quality of the steel produced, to the maximum casting speed possible for the quality of steel, to the final thickness of the strip and to the production cost.
Abstract:
Rolling plant and method to produce strip with a thickness varying from 0.7 mm to 20 mm, for all qualities of steel which can be cast in the form of thin slabs with a thickness comprised from 30 mm to 140 mm. The plant comprises at least a continuous casting device (11), a tunnel furnace (15) for heating and maintenance/equalization disposed downstream of the continuous casting device (11), a rolling train, disposed downstream of the tunnel furnace (15), consisting of a roughing train comprising from 1 to 4 rolling stands (18a, 18b, 18c) and a finishing train comprising from 3 to 7 stands (21a-21e), a rapid heating unit (20) with elements able to be selectively activated, interposed between said roughing train and said finishing train. The plant is made to work either in coil-to-coil mode, or in semi-endless mode or in endless mode.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an endless rolling method in which destruction of a sheet is prevented and damage of fixing plates and rolling rolls are prevented by maintaining the strength of a junction and by reducing the load applied to rolls. In the method, when sheet bars previously joined together are continuously treated in finish rolling, a step formed at the junction between the sheet bars is eliminated by setting the thicknesses of the sheet bar to the minimum thickness among the instruction thicknesses of the sheet bars to be joined together to form a unit.
Abstract:
The present invention eliminates the need to stop the operation of a line even when trouble arises before, during, or after an operation of joining metal blocks in hot rolling. According to a specific solving means of the present invention, when a succeeding metal block is to be subjected to hot finish rolling in succession to a preceding metal block after the leading end of the succeeding metal block is joined to a tail end 10B of the preceding metal block on the inlet side of a finish rolling mill 26, it is determined before and after joining whether or not endless rolling is impossible. When it is impossible, joining is aborted, and the succeeding metal block 12 is temporarily stopped, is fed again after the tail end 10B of the preceding metal block moves out of the finish rolling mill 26, and is finish-rolled under the conditions set for batch rolling. When joining was not performed successfully, a joint 11 is cut between a joining unit and the finish rolling mill 26, and the rolled material is bitten by the finish rolling mill set for batch rolling.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an installation and a method for producing metal strips, preferably steel strips, of a thickness of 0.8 to 25 mm in batch mode or semi-continuous mode, comprising at least one casting machine (1) for casting thin slabs and a rolling device (5, 8) arranged downstream of the at least one casting machine (1) and comprising a number of rolling stands for rolling thin slabs into metal strips of a predetermined thickness, and also at least one coiling device (11) arranged downstream of the rolling device (5, 8), wherein a shear (6) and a furnace (3) are arranged between the at least one casting machine (1) and the rolling device (5, 8), wherein the rolling device has a device for changing the roll gap of at least one rolling stand during the rolling operation and there is a control device, which controls the installation in such a way that switching over from batch mode to semi-continuous mode or back takes place according to the grade of metal, preferably the grade of steel, and the desired thickness of the metal strip to be produced, and that the switching over from batch mode to semi-continuous mode can take place in the course of the rolling operation by the rolling device.
Abstract:
The present invention provides continuous casting-milling equipment and method capable of switching between continuous and batch milling, which increase the process yield rate by reducing the portion which is unavoidably processed as scrap, when switching casting or at an initial stage. The continuous casting-milling equipment comprises: a casting unit; at least two rolling units; and a coil box arranged between the rolling units. The continuous casting-milling method comprises: a casting step for producing a slab; a first rolling step which reduces the thickness of the slab; a cutting step of cutting a predetermined distance from a front end portion of the slab at the initial stage of casting; a passing step of passing the continuously supplied slab through the coil box; and a second rolling step which reduces the thickness of the passed slab.
Abstract:
Rolling method in a rolling line (10), to produce strip with a thickness varying from 0.7 mm to 20 mm, for all qualities of steel which can be cast in the form of thin slabs with a thickness comprised from 30 mm to 140 mm, the line (10) comprising at least: a continuous casting device (11); a tunnel furnace (15) for maintenance/equalization and possible heating; a rolling train consisting of a roughing train comprising from 1 to 4 rolling stands (18a, 18b, 18c) and a finishing train comprising from 3 to 7 stands (21a-21e); a rapid heating unit (20), with elements able to be selectively activated, interposed between the roughing train and the finishing train. For each lay-out of the rolling line (10), the position of the rapid heating unit (20) which defines the number of stands (18a, 18b, 18c) which form the roughing train, disposed upstream of the unit (20), and the number of stands (21a-21e) which form the finishing train, disposed downstream of the unit (20), is calculated as a function of the product of the thickness and speed of the thin slab. The product is in turn a function of the hourly productivity in tons/hour desired to be obtained, and is made to work either in coil-to-coil mode, or in semi-endless mode or in endless mode. One of the three modes of the rolling process is selected according to the quality of the steel produced, to the maximum casting speed possible for the quality of steel, to the final thickness of the strip and to the production cost.