Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a facility for enabling manufacture of the whole quality of casting steel by a thin type slab technology, and capable of doubling productivity without requiring to stop casting, with cushioning between a casting machine and a rolling mill.SOLUTION: A rolling line 10 is provided for obtaining a belt-like plate of a thickness changed between 0.7-20 mm, by using steel materials with all qualities cast in the form of a thin type slab of a thickness of 30-140 mm, and comprises: the continuous casting machine 11; a tunnel furnace 15 for executing homogenization and heating when necessary; rough cutting trains 18a, 18b and 18c; a quick heating unit 20; and finishing trains 21a-21e. A position of the quick heating unit (20) for determining the number of rough cutting trains and the number of finishing trains, is calculated as a function between a thickness of a product and a speed of the thin type slab, and the product is obtained by the function of the productivity per a desirable time expressed by ton/time.
Abstract:
A process and an ultracompact plant for the endless production of hot rolled steel strip comprising an ingot mould (15) that produces a very thin slab, having narrow sides with thickness in the range between 40 and 55 mm and a central swelling, at a speed in the range between 4 and 16 m/min. Such a slab, which displays a core in which the steel is still liquid, is passed through a vertical pre-rolling device (16) that reduces the thickness of the slab and flattens it. The solidified slab may thus be subjected to a first mild rolling by a conveyor (17) and, by forming a free curve, takes a horizontal position where it is subjected to a first surface descaling, a first rolling, a heating in an inductor (23), a second surface descaling and a series of reductions in a rolling mill (30) formed by at least two stands, by maintaining its temperature along the mill above the recrystallisation point Ar3. Downstream of the rolling mill (30) there are provided a roller runway with cooling showers, a flying shear (33) for cutting to length the strip produced, pinch rolls and at least two spinning wheels (34) for the formation of coils of the hot rolled strip.
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.
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 (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:
A hot rolling method which, even if an abnormality occurs before, during or after the joining of metal pieces, does not need to stop the operation of the line. The method is such that if, at the inlet side of a finish rolling machine (26), the leading end of a following metal piece is to be joined to the trailing end (10B) of a preceding metal piece so as to be subjected to finish hot rolling continuously with the preceding metal piece (10), it is decided whether or not endless rolling is possible before and after joining and if it is found impossible, joining is suspended and the following metal piece (12) is stopped so that after the trailing end (10B) of the preceding metal piece has passed through the finish rolling machine (26), the following metal piece (12) is retransferred and finish-rolled with a setting for batch rolling, and if an abnormality occurs in the joined portion after the joining, the joined portion (11) is cut off between the joining device and the finish rolling machine (26), and the material to be rolled is fed into the finish rolling machine with a setting for batch rolling.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the lay-out of a plant capable of producing all the qualities of castable steel with the thin slab technology and to provide a rolling method and equipment which can manage the stopping time of the rolling plant for minor maintenance, roll changes and/or incidents, without long interruption.SOLUTION: There is provided a rolling line 10 in which all the qualities of steel which is cast into the form of thin slabs with a thickness comprised from 30 mm to 140 mm is used and strip with a thickness varying from 0.7 mm to 20 mm are obtained, the line includes: a continuous casting device 11; a tunnel furnace 15 performing equalization and, as necessary, heating; a roughing train 18a, 18b, 18c; a rapid heating unit 20; and a finishing train 21a-21e. The number of stands forming the roughing train and the finishing train is calculated as a function of the thickness of the product and the speed of the thin slab, and one of the three modes of a coil-to-coil mode, a semi-endless mode and an endless mode is selected.