Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce a strip having the customer-specified characteristic by using single roll profiles for casting rolls of a substantially constant throughput, producing the extensively different cast strip thickness, maintaining a predetermined as-cast fine structure in a cast strip, and performing the decoration-control as expected firmly by the subsequent cooling system. SOLUTION: In a twin roll strip caster, by determining a target depth of the casting pool and a target speed of the casting rolls to operate at them, the thickness of the as-cast strip is controlled. The as-cast strip may be cast to the customer-specified thickness or may be subsequently rolled to a customer-specified thickness. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a low surface roughness casting strip manufacturing method capable of reducing micro cracks on a surface of a casting strip, by controlling a hot rolled strip in surface roughness less than 1.5 micron.SOLUTION: An oil-water mixture is applied to a backup roll of a hot rolling machine, and while applying the oil-water mixture to a work roll from the backup roll; a thin casting strip is passed through the hot rolling machine at a temperature less than 1100°C; the thin casting strip passing through the hot rolling machine from a casting roll is wrapped up with an atmosphere containing less than 5% of oxygen; the thin casting strip is formed having at least one microstructure selected from the group consisting of polygonal ferrite, needle-like ferrite, Widmanstaetten, bainite and martensite, and having the surface roughness of less than 1.5 micron Ra and the scale thickness of less than about 10 micron, which is set to be formed at the manufacturing speed of more than 80 m/min.
Abstract:
A model-based strategy is provided for determining casting roll operating temperature in a continuous thin strip casting process. A first temperature sensor produces a first temperature signal indicative of the temperature of cooling liquid supplied to the casting rolls and a second temperature sensor produces a second temperature signal indicative of the temperature of cooling liquid temperature exiting the casting rolls. A computer determines a heat flux value as a function of the first and second temperature signals, and computes the operating temperature of the casting rolls as a function of the heat flux value, the second temperature signal and a number of constants defined by fixed-valued operating parameters of the continuous thin strip casting process. A control strategy is also provided to modify one or more operating parameters of the continuous thin strip casting process as a function of the casting roll temperature.
Abstract:
A system for determining process parameters for the ladle refinement of steel includes a computer executing a number of software algorithms for determining one or more process parameters for various steel refinement process steps. In one embodiment, for example, the computer is configured to determine the total amount of flux additions to achieve a desired sulfur percentage as part of a steel desulfurization process. In another embodiment, the computer is configured to determine the total quantity of oxygen to be injected into the steel as part of a steel reoxidation process. In still another embodiment, the computer is configured to determine a melting temperature of inclusions within the refined steel, and to determine whether this melting temperature is within an acceptable range to successfully process the steel in a continuous steel strip casting apparatus/process, or whether the steel must be reworked to achieve an acceptable inclusion melting temperature.
Abstract:
A method of producing cast steel strip having low surface roughness and low porosity by casting with molten steel having a total oxygen content of at least about 70 ppm and a free oxygen content between 20 and 60 ppm, and a temperature that allows a majority of any oxide inclusions to be in a liquidus state. The total oxygen content may be at least 100 ppm and the free oxygen content between 30 and 50 ppm. The steel strip produced by the method may have a per unit area density of at least 120 oxide inclusions per square millimeter to a depth of about 2 microns from the strip surface.
Abstract:
Twin roll casting of thin steel strip. Molten steel is introduced between a pair of cooled casting rolls to form a casting pool from which steel solidifies on the rolls to produce a solidified strip. The molten steel has a total oxygen content in the range 100ppm to 250ppm and contains metal oxide inclusions comprising any one or more of MnO, SiO2 and Al2O3 distributed throughout the steel at an inclusion density in the range 2gm/cm3 to 4gm/cm3. Typically the inclusions range in size between 2 and 12 microns. The cast strip has a thickness of less than 5mm and contains solidified metal oxide inclusions distributed such that the regions of the strip contain solidified inclusions to a per unit area density of at least 120 inclusions/mm2.
Abstract:
Steel strips and methods for producing steel strips are provided. In an illustrated embodiment, a method for producing steel strips includes continuously casting molten steel into a strip, said molten steel comprising a concentration of residuals of 2.0 wt% or less is selected with regard to the microstructure of the finished strip to provide a desired yield strength; and cooling the strip to transform the strip from austenite to ferrite in the temperature range of 850 DEG C to 400 DEG C. Cast steel with improved yield strength properties is produced by such method.
Abstract:
A method of controlling a continuous steel strip casting process based on customer-specified requirements includes a general purpose computer in which product specifications of steel product ordered by a customer is entered. The computer is configured to automatically map the product specifications to process parameters/set points for controlling the continuous steel strip casting process in a manner to produce the customer ordered product, and in one embodiment produces a process change report detailing such process parameters/set points for operator use in physically implementing such process parameters/set points in the strip casting process. Alternatively, the computer may provide the process parameters/set points directly to the strip casting process for automatic control thereof in producing the customer ordered steel product. The process of the present invention is capable of substantially reducing the time between a customer request for a steel product and delivery thereof over that of conventional steel manufacturing processes.
Abstract:
A method of controlling in a twin roll strip caster the thickness of as-cast strip by determining and operating at a target depth of the casting pool and a target speed of the casting rolls. The as-cast strip may be cast to a customer-specified thickness or may be subsequently rolled to a customer-specified thickness.