scholarly journals Comparación y Efecto del Homogenizado en Billets de Aluminio AA 6063

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 322
Author(s):  
Bladimiro Hernán Navas Olmedo ◽  
Hernán Alberto Navas Moscoso
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
Continuous Casting ◽  
Continuous Casting Machine ◽  
Casting Machine ◽  
Casting Process ◽  
Weight Percent ◽  
Alloying Elements ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Aluminum Profiles

The lack of comparative studies about the distribution of the main alloying elements along aluminum billet´s AA 6063 widely use in extrusion companies to produce aluminum profiles, It makes necessary to counterpoise the difference between homogenized billet produced in horizontal continuous casting machine and a billet produced in vertical semi-continuous casting process. Applying spectrometric tests to quantify the weight percent of main alloying elements, brings out its own nature of each production process on every billet. Nevertheless, helped out by a metallographic test reveals in one billet the negative effect of an inadequate process of homogenization after the heat treatment process T5 in the aluminum profiles that holds it back to reach an adequate Webster hardness related to quality assurance. It reflects that is not enough to have a billet with a uniform chemical composition but the importance of an adequate billet´s heat treatment in order to be use in the extrusion process.Keywords: AA 6063, Billet, Comparison, Homogenized

scholarly journals Study of the Influence of Intermix Conditions on Steel Cleanliness

Metals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branislav Bul’ko ◽  
Marek Molnár ◽  
Peter Demeter ◽  
Dana Baricová ◽  
Alena Pribulová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Casting ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Cast Steel ◽  
Continuous Casting Machine ◽  
Casting Machine ◽  
Chemical Compositions ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Type Size ◽  
Steel Cleanliness ◽  
Steel Grades

Modern steel plants produce today a large portfolio of various steel grades, many for end-uses demanding high quality. In order to utilize the maximum productivity of the continuous-casting machine, it is sometimes necessary to cast steel grades with different chemical compositions in one sequence. It is important, therefore, to know the possibilities of a specific continuous-casting machine to make the Intermix connections as short as possible. Any interference with established procedures may, however, have a negative impact on the cleanliness of the cast steel. Using physical and numerical simulation tools, it was found that reducing the steel level in the tundish during the exchange of ladles makes it possible to shorten the transition zone. However, when the steel level is reduced, the flow of steel is impaired, which can have a negative effect on the cleanliness of the cast steel and, in extreme cases, may even lead to entrapment of slag in the mold. The cleanliness of cast steel was evaluated using one of the most advanced tools for automatic steel cleanliness evaluation, AZtecFeature (Oxford Instruments, Abingdon, UK), which enables determination of the type, size, distribution, and shape, as well as the chemical composition, of individual types of non-metal inclusions.

scholarly journals Optimization of the Continuous Casting Process of Hypoeutectoid Steel Grades Using Multiple Linear Regression and Genetic Programming—An Industrial Study

Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 972
Author(s):  
Miran Brezocnik ◽  
Uroš Župerl
Keyword(s):  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Continuous Casting ◽  
Continuous Caster ◽  
Continuous Casting Machine ◽  
Casting Machine ◽  
Casting Process ◽  
Continuous Casting Process ◽  
Strength Tests ◽  
Steel Grades ◽  
Hypoeutectoid Steel

Štore Steel Ltd. is one of the major flat spring steel producers in Europe. Until 2016 the company used a three-strand continuous casting machine with 6 m radius, when it was replaced by a completely new two-strand continuous caster with 9 m radius. For the comparison of the tensile strength of 41 hypoeutectoid steel grades, we conducted 1847 tensile strength tests during the first period of testing using the old continuous caster, and 713 tensile strength tests during the second period of testing using the new continuous caster. It was found that for 11 steel grades the tensile strength of the rolled material was statistically significantly lower (t-test method) in the period of using the new continuous caster, whereas all other steel grades remained the same. To improve the new continuous casting process, we decided to study the process in more detail using the Multiple Linear Regression method and the Genetic Programming approach based on 713 items of empirical data obtained on the new continuous casting machine. Based on the obtained models of the new continuous casting process, we determined the most influential parameters on the tensile strength of a product. According to the model’s analysis, the secondary cooling at the new continuous caster was improved with the installation of a self-cleaning filter in 2019. After implementing this modification, we performed an additional 794 tensile tests during the third period of testing. It was found out that, after installation of the self-cleaning filter, in 6 steel grades out of 19, the tensile strength in rolled condition improved statistically significantly, whereas all the other steel grades remained the same.

scholarly journals A Comparison of Models Describing Heat Transfer in the Primary Cooling Zone of a Continuous Casting Machine

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Miłkowska-Piszczek ◽  
M. Rywotycki ◽  
J. Falkus ◽  
K. Konopka
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Casting ◽  
Continuous Casting Machine ◽  
Casting Machine ◽  
Casting Process ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Cooling Zone ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
Cast Slab ◽  
Thermal Boundary Conditions

Abstract This paper presents the findings of research conducted concerning the determination of thermal boundary conditions for the steel continuous casting process within the primary cooling zone. A cast slab - with dimensions of 1100 mm×220 mm - was analysed, and models described in references were compared with the authors’ model. The presented models were verified on the basis of an industrial database. The research problem was solved with the finite element method using the ProCAST software package.

scholarly journals Directions of development of production of small- size billets for long products

2018 ◽  
pp. 259-274
Author(s):  
V.G. Gerasimenko ◽  
L.S. Molchanov
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Casting ◽  
Rolling Mill ◽  
Continuous Casting Machine ◽  
Casting Machine ◽  
Transfer Scheme ◽  
Effective Option ◽  
Continuously Cast ◽  
The Difference ◽  
High Temperature Furnaces ◽  
Decarburized Layer

The aim of the work is to study the technological features of the transfer of metallurgical enterprises to the production of small-size and wire metal products from continuously cast billets. The main parameters of the rolling technology are considered: the size of the billet, the choice of the location of the continuous casting machine, the transfer scheme of continuously cast billets to small- size and wire mills. It is shown that when using a continuously cast square billet with a size of 130x130 mm and 150x150 mm, direct combination of a continuous casting machine with a rolling mill is almost impossible due to the difference in the speed of continuous casting and the roughing group of the mill. The performed calculations show that the scheme of cutting the billets and combining with the intermediate furnace is technologically feasible, however, further heating of the billets leads to significant energy losses. It has been established that an effective option for combining the continuous casting machine with a rolling mill is to use a complex of equipment with a furnace-thermostat for a billets 120 m long. This flowchart reduces the energy consumption for heating the billets by at least 53%. The proposed technology of combining the continuous casting machine with a rolling mill will provide metal savings by reducing the thickness of the scale to 0.4-0.73 mm (an average of 1.1% of the mass of the billet), improve its quality by reducing the depth of the decarburized layer from 1.1 mm to 0.3 mm. The technology provides for the transportation of liquid steel in the ladle from the steel-smelting shop, casting on the continuous casting machine, identification of defects in the billets in a hot condition, supply of the billets with a temperature of 8500С to high-temperature furnaces for heating and subsequent rolling.

Soft-Sensor for Estimation of Lead Slices Thickness in Continuous Casting Process

2011 ◽  
Vol 323 ◽  
pp. 40-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shi Lun Zuo ◽  
Jia Xu Wang ◽  
Tai Fu Li
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Casting ◽  
Continuous Casting Machine ◽  
Casting Machine ◽  
Casting Process ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Good Prediction ◽  
Soft Sensors ◽  
Continuous Casting Process ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Good Prediction Accuracy

Continuous casting process is a traditional and widely-used technique in producing the cathode of electric lead. In this paer, soft-sensors based on a support vector regression （SVR, in short）model and an artificial neural networks （ANNs, in short）model respectively, were presented for the estimation of the lead slices thickness in the process.Experiments had been performed on the continuous casting machine to obtain the data used for training and testing of the soft-sensors. For the continuous casting process, the soft-sensors proposed here represents a viable and inexpensive on-line sensors.The study results indicate that a good prediction accuracy of the slice thickess can be provided by the soft-sensors, and even a better performance can be achieved by using pre-processing procedures to the input data, it also shows that the SVR model is an attractive alternative to ANNs model for the soft-sensors, when the number of samples is relatively small.

scholarly journals Investigation of internal defects formation reasons in copper billet obtained at rotary continuous casting machine (CCM)

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
A.N. Smirnov ◽  
◽  
V.E. Ukhin ◽  
A.P. Verzilov ◽  
Ali Naseri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Casting ◽  
Continuous Casting Machine ◽  
Casting Machine ◽  
Internal Defects

Sensorless electric drive of the mixture supply system in the mold of the continuous steel casting installation

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
K. V. Litsin ◽  
D. M. Utyamishev
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Casting ◽  
Electric Drive ◽  
Continuous Casting Machine ◽  
Casting Machine ◽  
Steel Production ◽  
Angular Speed ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Actual Direction ◽  
Vector Control System ◽  
The Cost

The system of automatic feeding of the slag-forming mixture into the mold of the continuous casting machine was investigated in this article. The necessity of using a slag-forming mixture in the process of steel production has been substantiated. The proofs are given that the consumption of the slag-forming mixture significantly affects the cost of the final product. The quality level of the final product depends on the uniformity and consistency of the mixture supply to the crystallizer. Therefore, the actual direction is the automation of the process of feeding the slag-forming mixture into the mold of the continuous casting machine. The description of the developed automatic installation, which implements the supply of slag-forming mixture, is presented. The necessity of using a sensorless electric drive for moving the trolley has been substantiated. A simulation model of a bogie electric drive with a vector control system based on sensorless determination of the angular speed of the engine has been developed. The description of the method for determining the angular speed of the motor based on the known values of phase voltages is given. The simulation of the developed electric drive system in the Matlab Simulink program, confirming the adequacy of the developed system. The introduction of a sensorless electric drive into the system for feeding the mixture into the mold of the continuous casting machine will increase the reliability of the entire system and reduce its weight and dimensions.

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