Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Requirements for Roll Performance of Bar Rolling Mill

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With the progress of steel rolling technology and the improvement of equipment level, the bar production line has gradually moved towards continuous, automatic and efficient production, and the requirements for wear resistance and thermal stability of rolls are also higher and higher.

All kinds of ductile iron rolls used in the past can not meet the higher requirements, especially the production line based on hot-rolled ribbed steel bars. In addition to the special requirements for the hardness and toughness of the roller for the finished stand, the slitting rolling technology is mostly adopted for the small-sized varieties, and the requirements of the pre-slitting and cutting passes on the rolls are sometimes even more stringent than the requirements for the finished rolls of the ribbed bars.

At present, the traditional cast iron roll is still widely used in most bar production lines. Centrifugal casting high Ni Cr acicular bainite ductile iron roll is generally used in the finishing mill. The single-groove steel passing capacity of the finished roll is only 50 ~ 400t / groove according to the rolling specifications and process conditions.

This means that a bar production line with a single shift (8h) output of about 1000t has to replace the rolling groove 3-5 times per shift, resulting in a long cumulative time for roll changing and groove changing, frequent adjustment of rolling mill and frequent production accidents. As a result, the operation rate of the whole production line is reduced, the technical and economic indicators such as yield are poor, the product size fluctuates greatly and the comprehensive production cost is increased.

iron rolls

Therefore, the development and application of high wear-resistant and long-life rolls is an important means to improve the production efficiency of the bar production line. At present, this kind of roll mainly includes centrifugal casting high-speed steel composite roll, forging high-speed steel roll ring combined roll and tungsten carbide roll ring combined roll.

The main performance indexes of the roller are core strength and wear resistance of the working layer. In addition to considering the economy and the matching of roll changing and groove changing period with shutdown time, it is more important to reasonably select rolls with different performance characteristics from the pass difference of each set of stands, the deformation characteristics of rolled pieces and the requirements of product accuracy.

The main task of the roughing stand of the bar mill is to reduce the cross-section at high temperature, which has a high rolling force and low rolling speed. Generally, the roll performance should be considered from the two aspects of ensuring the roll strength and hot cracking resistance. For general steel grades and normal rolling temperature, centrifugal casting ordinary ductile iron roll can be selected.

The medium rolling mill of bar rolling mill generally adopts an ellipse round pass system, which mainly undertakes the task of extending the rolled piece and providing an accurate profile for the finishing mill. The rolling force is moderate and the pass wear is uniform. Therefore, centrifugal casting ordinary ductile iron roll or medium nickel-chromium alloy ductile iron roll is generally selected. In order to ensure the stability of the size of the exported rolling pieces of the unit, the export stand can also choose high nickel-chromium alloy ductile iron rolls or high-speed steel composite rolls.

steel roll

There are many varieties of bar finishing mill, complex pass shape, uneven distribution of deformation, high rolling speed and large variation of rolling force. Therefore, the performance requirements of the roller mainly wear resistance and toughness, and both hot cracking resistance and strength are taken into account.

For the extended pass of the simple section, high nickel-chromium alloy ductile iron rolls are generally used, and high-speed steel composite rolls can also be used. For the finished front hole of round steel or ribbed steel bar, it is recommended to select high-speed steel composite roller or tungsten carbide composite roller with higher wear resistance.

As the finished hole of round steel is very small, the tungsten carbide composite roller with the best wear resistance and the high-speed steel composite roll with higher surface hardness should be selected. The finished hole of the ribbed steel bar is affected by the transverse ribs, and it is very easy to produce thermal cracks or micro-cracks during use.

In general, all transverse ribs must be turned off, and the amount of heavy vehicles is large. Therefore, the economy of the expensive tungsten carbide combined roll will be greatly affected. It is better to select a high-speed steel composite roll. Due to the serious non-uniform deformation in use, the high-speed steel composite roller with good toughness and wear resistance and moderate hardness or the tungsten carbide composite roll with good toughness and wear resistance should be selected.

Due to the existence of slitting wedge, not only good wear resistance and toughness, but also reliable hot cracking resistance are required. It has been proved that the present high-speed steel composite roll and tungsten carbide composite roll do not have this characteristic, and the phenomenon of splitting wedge spalling easily occurs in use. Therefore, only high nickel-chromium alloy ductile cast iron rollers can be used.

Friday, July 24, 2020

What Is the Difference between Submerged Arc Furnace and Electric Arc Furnace?

electric arc furnace

Electric arc furnace is a kind of power-frequency electric furnace that uses electric arc energy to smelt metal. Electric arc furnaces used in industry can be divided into three categories: the first type is a direct heating type. The arc occurs between the special electrode rod and the smelted charge, and the charge is directly exposed to the arc heat. It was mainly used for steelmaking, and secondarily used for smelting iron, copper, refractory materials, refined molten steel, etc.

The second type is indirect heating. The arc occurs between two special electrode rods. The charge is only radiated by the arc and is used for smelting copper and copper alloys.

The third type is called submerged arc furnace, which uses ore with high resistivity as raw material, and the lower part of the electrode is generally buried in the charge during operation. The heating principle is that not only the heat flux generated by the resistance of the charge when the current passes through the charge, but also the heat generated by the arc between the electrode and the charge is used. Submerged arc furnace is a kind of electric arc furnace.

. properties:

1. Electric arc furnace: an electric furnace that uses the high temperature generated by the electrode arc to smelt ores and metals.

Industrial furnaces in which electric arc furnaces generate electric arc heating by metal electrodes or non-metal electrodes are called electric arc furnaces. Electric arc furnaces can be divided into three-phase electric arc furnaces, consumable electric arc furnaces, single-phase electric arc furnaces and resistance electric arc furnaces according to the arc form. The furnace body of the electric arc steelmaking furnace is composed of a furnace cover, a furnace door, a tapping trough and a furnace body, and the furnace bottom and furnace walls are built with alkaline refractory materials or acid refractory materials.

Electric arc steelmaking furnaces are divided into ordinary power electric arc furnaces, high power electric arc furnaces and ultra-high power electric arc furnaces according to the transformer capacity per ton of furnace capacity. Electric arc furnace steelmaking is to input electric energy into the electric arc steelmaking furnace through graphite electrodes, and use the arc generated between the electrode end and the charge as the heat source for steelmaking. The electric arc furnace uses electric energy as the heat source, and the atmosphere in the furnace can be adjusted, which is extremely beneficial to the smelting of steels that contain more oxidizable elements. After the invention of electric arc furnace steelmaking, it was used to smelt alloy steel and has been greatly developed.

With the improvement of electric arc furnace equipment and the improvement of smelting technology, the development of electric power industry, the cost of electric arc furnace steelmaking continues to decline. Now electric arc furnace steelmaking is used not only to produce alloy steel, but also to produce ordinary carbon steel. The proportion of output in the total steel output of major industrial countries continues to rise.

submerged arc furnace

2. Submerged arc furnace: also known as electric arc furnace or resistance electric furnace. It is an industrial electric furnace with huge power consumption.

According to the structural and working characteristics of the submerged arc furnace, 70% of the system reactance of the submerged arc furnace is generated by the short network system, and the short network is a high-current working system, the maximum current can reach tens of thousands of amperes, so the short network The performance of the submerged arc furnace determines the performance of the submerged arc furnace. For this reason, the natural power factor of the submerged arc furnace is difficult to reach above 0.85. The natural power factor of most furnaces is between 0.7 and 0.8, which is relatively low. The power factor not only reduces the efficiency of the transformer, but also consumes a lot of useless work, and is charged with additional power fines by the power department. At the same time, due to the manual control of the electrodes and the stacking process, the power imbalance between the three phases increases, and the highest imbalance is The power can reach more than 20%, which leads to low smelting efficiency and higher electricity bills.

Therefore, increasing the power factor of the short network and reducing the imbalance of the grid has become an effective means to reduce energy consumption and improve smelting efficiency. If appropriate measures are taken to improve the short-network power factor, the power consumption can be reduced by 5-20%, and the output can be increased by 5%-10%.

This will bring good economic benefits to the enterprise, and the investment in transformation costs will be recovered in the short-term and in the short term.

In general, in order to solve the problem of low natural power factor of submerged arc furnaces, China mostly adopts the method of reactive power compensation on the high-voltage side to solve the problem. High-voltage compensation only improves the power factor of the high-voltage side, but due to the short-circuit system of the low-voltage side, the reactive power generated by the huge inductive reactance still flows in the short network system, and the three-phase imbalance is due to the strong phase of the short network (the short network is shorter, so the inductive reactance is smaller, so the loss is smaller, and the output is larger. Namely strong phase) and weak phase.

Therefore, high-voltage compensation cannot solve the problem of three-phase balance, nor can it offset the reactive power of the short-circuit system and improve the power factor of the low-voltage end. Because the inductive reactance of the short-network accounts for the inductive reactance of the entire system. Therefore, it cannot reduce the loss of the low-voltage side and increase the output of the transformer, but it can avoid fines, which is only meaningful for the power supply department.

electric arc furnaces

Compared with high-voltage compensation, the advantages of low-voltage compensation are mainly reflected in the following aspects in addition to improving the power factor:

1) Improve the utilization of transformers and high-current lines, and increase the effective input power of smelting.

For arc smelting, the generation of reactive power is mainly caused by the arc current. Move the compensation point forward to the short network to compensate the large amount of reactive power consumption of the short network on site, increase the power supply input voltage, increase the output of the transformer, and increase the smelting effective input power.

The melting power of the material is a function of the electrode voltage and the specific resistance of the material, which can be simply expressed as P=U2/Z material. As the load capacity of the transformer is improved, the power input from the transformer to the furnace is increased, which can increase production and reduce consumption.

2) Unbalance compensation, improve the strong and weak phase conditions of the three-phase.

Because the three-phase short network layout and furnace body, charge and so on are always unbalanced, the three-phase different voltage drop and different power lead to the formation of strong phase and weak phase phenomenon. The reactive power compensation is carried out by single-phase parallel connection, the compensation capacity of each phase is adjusted comprehensively, the power density of furnace core and the uniformity of crucible are improved, the effective working voltage of three-phase electrode is consistent, the electrode voltage is balanced, the feeding of three-phase is balanced, the strong and weak phase conditions of three-phase are improved, and the purpose of increasing production and reducing consumption is achieved. 

At the same time, the three-phase unbalance phenomenon is improved, the working environment of furnace is improved, and the service life of furnace is prolonged.

3) Reduce high-order harmonics, reduce the harm of harmonics to the entire power supply equipment, and reduce additional losses of transformers and networks.

4) Improved power quality, improved system electrical parameters, and improved product quality. The figure below reflects the flow direction of reactive power during high-pressure compensation and low-pressure compensation. It can be clearly seen from the figure that the high voltage compensation cannot reduce the loss and increase the output of the transformer.

However, due to a large number of switching switches with traditional compensation switching technology (such as the use of AC contactor switching), the cost is high, and the service life is greatly affected due to the harsh working environment. According to survey statistics, the existing ones use traditional The low-voltage compensation service life of the switching method is difficult to exceed one year, so it brings a large amount of maintenance to the enterprise, and the investment recovery period is prolonged. Due to the high follow-up maintenance cost, the overall benefit is not good.

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BWKN-3500 reactive power compensation controller (special type for submerged arc furnace short network), a reactive power compensation controller specially developed and designed for submerged arc furnace system (submerged arc furnace short network) to adapt to the working characteristics of submerged arc furnace Special type), the controller has the ideal function of improving power quality, mainly has the functions of improving the power factor of the submerged arc furnace, saving energy, providing voltage support, and reducing flicker. The controller has the following salient features:

▲Compensation for the three phases separately to reduce the three-phase imbalance and effectively increase production and reduce consumption.

▲ Greatly improve voltage sag and flicker.

▲Achieve free switching at any time.

▲High reliability, maintenance-free and unattended.

▲Multiple protection design avoids damage to capacitors and electronic switches to the greatest extent. (Developed according to different customers)

▲Significantly improve the utilization rate of the power supply system.

▲Main technical parameters: the main basis of the controller

Design specification: DL/T597-1996; rated voltage: 220V; fundamental frequency: 50Hz; controlled physical quantity: reactive power Q; power factor COSΦ; reactive power compensation capacity single channel setting value: 0---9999K VAR working system: Continuous work; Ambient temperature: -5℃~+70℃; Relative humidity: daily average not more than 95%, monthly average not more than 90% (indoors), non-condensing; compensation method: phase separation and grading compensation. (Can be customized according to customer needs)

▲Performance characteristics can be divided into phases, grades, cycles, electronic switch switching; phase separation and graded compensation can be used. Equipped with complete protection functions; automatic control of switching, device operation without manual intervention, safe and efficient.

Ⅱ. Features:

1. Electric arc furnace: The electric arc furnace is more flexible than other steelmaking furnaces. It can effectively remove impurities such as sulfur and phosphorus. The furnace temperature is easy to control, and the equipment occupies a small area. It is suitable for melting high-quality alloy steel.

2. Submerged arc furnace: Its working feature is to use carbonaceous or magnesia refractory materials as the furnace lining and self-cultivation electrodes. The electrode is inserted into the furnace charge for submerged arc operation. It uses the energy and current of the electric arc to pass through the charge. The energy is generated by the charge resistance to smelt the metal. It is an industrial electric furnace with continuous feeding and intermittent tapping of iron slag.

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Sunday, July 19, 2020

How to Choose the Right Roll?

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Residual stress and thermal stress will occur in the preparatory process before the roll is manufactured and used. During application, it was further subjected to various periodic stress effects, including tortuosity, change, shear force, contact stress and thermal stress. The distribution of these stresses along the roll body is uneven and constantly changing. The reason is not only the planning factors, but also the continuous changes in the wear, temperature and roll shape of the roll in use. In addition, rolling conditions often exhibit abnormal conditions. Improper cooling of the rollers after application will also be endangered by thermal stress.

Therefore, in addition to wear, the roll often exhibits various partial damages and appearance damages such as cracks, fractures, flaking, and indentation. A good roll should have a better match between its strength, wear-resistance and various other performance indicators. In this way, it is not only durable under normal rolling conditions, but also less damaging when presenting some abnormal rolling conditions. Therefore, when making rolls, the metallurgical quality of the rolls must be strictly controlled or supplemented with external measures to enhance the bearing capacity of the rolls.

Various types of rolling mills produce long products. Therefore, the selection and layout of rolling mill types, the selection of roll materials, and the determination of roll sizes are also very wide. At the same time, the rolls selected by different rolling mills are also different, and the rolls need to be selected according to production requirements.

Before choosing the right roll to increase productivity and improve product quality, you need to fully understand the types and configurations of various mills.

1. Bar and small section rolling mill

Generally speaking, bar and small section rolling mills can use either steel ingots with a size range of 80 to 150 mm or continuous casting billets with the same size range to produce small profile and bars. The initial feed temperature of the bar and small profile rolling mill is 1200°C. The rolling mill can be produced either semi-continuously or fully continuously. Continuous rolling mill is the current development trend, during which there are rough rolling, intermediate rolling and finishing rolling stands. The roughing stands are arranged in horizontal/vertical order, which mainly depends on the product composition. The intermediate stand and the finishing stand can be either vertical or horizontal. For the bar, the rolling mill constitutes more vertical stands, while for other small profiles, the horizontal stand is often used.

In the small profile rolling mill, the diameter of the selected roll is 300-600mm, and the length of the roll body is 700mm according to the difference between the raw materials fed and the final product size. For product tolerances, users generally require one-third of international tolerance standards, and products must have a good surface finish. For small profile, the rolling speed of the rolling mill is from 12m/s to 20m/s, while for the bar rolling mill, the rolling speed has been increased to 36m/s.

2. Wire rod rolling mill

Wire rod rolling mills have rough rolling stands and intermediate stands similar to small profile rolling stands. Compared with small profile rolling mills for two-line rolling, these mills are generally designed to perform split rolling for simultaneous rolling of up to four lines. However, the current development trend is to use single-line high-speed rolling. Modern wire rod rolling mills generally have 8 to 10 non-twisting stands, which are arranged at an angle of 90° to each other in the finishing mill.

At present, the diameter of the rolls used in wire rod mills is limited to 200mm. The rolling speed can be as high as 140m/s.

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3. Medium profile rolling mill and large profile rolling mill

After the rough rolling stand, the medium profile rolling mill has two sets of continuous stands. Continuous rolling mills can be arranged horizontally or vertically according to the pass design. For the section steel and channel steel with parallel edges, there is also a universal frame. When rolling other profiles, the universal frame can be replaced with the horizontal frame. The rolls of the horizontal frame have a deep hole pattern, but the universal frame does not.

The larger-diameter horizontal roll determines the shape of the section steel, and the smaller-diameter pair of vertical rolls are used to roll the edge. When the billet passes through the finishing rolls of the traditional stand and the universal stand, a good surface finish and dimensional tolerance can be obtained.

Roller parameter selection

-Rolled steel grade


The rolled steel type is the key factor for selecting the roll. Its deformation resistance varies with the chemical composition of the billet, which is mainly reflected in the size and change of the deformation load at each stage of rolling. The roller must be selected according to the determined strength and hardness.

-Rolling mill layout and pass design

The position of the stand on the production line and the design of the pass has a great influence on the choice of rolls. Depending on the position of the stand, the force mode and performance of the rolls can vary greatly. This is because the rolls applied to the rough rolling stand and the finish rolling stand have very different stress modes, resulting in expected changes in roll performance. In addition, the time interval between the passage of a billet and the next billet and the productivity of the rolling mill also has a great influence on the choice of rolls. It can be observed through experiments that roll bending and torsional stress combined with high rolling pressure are the factors that determine the selection of rolls for rough steel stands. However, in the finishing stand, hardness, wear-resistance and surface quality are the key factors for roll selection.

-Friction between roller and billet

Due to the difference between the circumferential speed of the roll and the billet speed, friction plays a very important role, especially at low speeds, such as blooming mills and roughing stands. Therefore, the relevant data creates conditions for the proper selection of rolls to suit a particular stand.

-Hot state

The thermal conditions of the rolls and rolled billets are also very important. The main reason is that the temperature of the roll is much lower than that of the rolled billet. Therefore, the roll is susceptible to high thermal shock in a short period of time, resulting in the formation of burnt cracks on the roll surface and further spread to form fatigue cracks. Therefore, the selection of rolls should take into account that roll cracks are minimally generated and propagated under rolling conditions.

-Roller cooling

The effectiveness of the roll is also related to the layout of the rolling mill coolant. The thermal conductivity of the roll material has a great influence on the cooling of the roll. The higher the thermal conductivity of the roll material, the higher the requirement for effective cooling, mainly to avoid the occurrence of cracking, resulting in a reduction in roll life.

Choose the roll according to the type of rolling mill

The selection of rolls is very skillful. The experience of the rolling mill operator plays a decisive role in the selection of rolls.

-Bar and small rolling mill

The requirements of this type of rolling mill for rolls are ① relatively good bending strength against impact; ② uniform hardness of the roll; ③ higher wear resistance; ④ better resistance to cracking.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

How to Improve Success Rate of Heat Exchange of Tundish of Continuous Casting Machine

continuous casting machine

In order to reduce the cost and increase the operating rate of the continuous casting machine, when the tundish reaches the service life, it is necessary to carry out the hot-swapping operation of the tundish. During the hot-swapping of the tundish, the casting billet drawing speed is stopped, and the casting billet is still in continuous spraying In the cooling state, if the heat exchange time of the bale is too long, it is likely that the slab is cooled too much, which makes the slab hard and causes stagnation, interrupts production, and may even cause a frozen slab accident. At present, there is a hot-swapping operation for the tundish in the CCM of the steel plant, but there is no specific description of the control range of each operation.

This article aims at the continuous casting of slabs in steel mills and the pulling speed during the hot exchange of the tundish, which makes the slab continuously cooled by spraying, resulting in excessive hardening of the slab cooling and production problems in the slab. The method improves the success rate of heat exchange and the operation rate of continuous casting machine, reduces the labor intensity, and plays an active role in demonstrating energy saving and consumption reduction of enterprises.

The purpose of this method is to improve the success rate of the heat exchange of the continuous casting machine, control the heat exchange time of the tundish within 5 minutes, reduce the cost and improve the operation rate. The following are the specific contents:

Step1 The ladle waiting time is 5-10min, the ladle reaches the continuous casting platform temperature 1590-1600°C;

Step2 The pulling speed of the tundish molten steel is reduced by one gear every 20 seconds, and the pulling speed is reduced to 0. 3m/min within 8min;

Step3 Measure the liquid level of the tundish. When the liquid level of the tundish is 300-500mm, drive the standby tundish to the heat exchange preparation area. When the tundish stops pouring, move the standby tundish and the pouring tundish to the other side start simultaneously on the side;

Step4 After the spare tundish car is opened to the pouring position, quickly install the red hot immersion nozzle (the bake time of the immersion nozzle is 2h longer), adjust the position of the tundish car so that the immersion nozzle is in the middle of the crystallizer, and install the blind plate After that, adjust the height of the tundish car to ensure that the bottom of the immersion nozzle is 150-180mm away from the upper mouth of the crystallizer;

Step5 When the tundish is ready, the ladle is opened, after pouring 10 tons of molten steel, 150-200kg of covering agent is added to the tundish, and the temperature of the open tundish is measured, which requires> 1550°C;

Step6 When the ladle is poured 20 tons, the tundish starts pouring, and the tundish molten steel is poured into the crystallizer;

Step7 After the pouring of the tundish, the emergence time is controlled at 80-120S. When the molten steel in the crystallizer reaches 115-125mm from the bottom of the immersion nozzle, that is, the molten steel has not passed the immersion nozzle, the pulling start operation is carried out, and the pulling speed after starting 0. 3m/min, 0. 3m/min pulling speed is maintained for 1min, and then the pulling speed is increased to the normal value of 0.9m/min; from the first tundish stop to the start of the second tundish, the time is controlled at 4 -5min.

The operation points of the present invention: coordinate the rhythm of molten steel, control the time of molten steel preparation ladle and reach the temperature of continuous casting platform, control the speed drop time and control the liquid level height of tundish; Simultaneously start the standby tundish and the pouring tundish at the same time. After the standby tundish is opened to the pouring position, the submerged nozzle is quickly installed and centered. After the blind plate is installed, the large tundish is poured; from the first tundish The total pouring time from the pouring stop to the replacement of the tundish is controlled within 5min; this method shortens the hot exchange time of the tundish as much as possible to avoid the stagnation phenomenon caused by the excessive cooling time of the casting slab, and demonstrates the technological progress.

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Thursday, July 2, 2020

What Are the Types of Rolling Mill Roll?

rolling mill roll

Rolling mill roll is a tool for plastic deformation of rolled metal, which is an important consumption part to determine the efficiency of rolling mill and the quality of rolled products. Roll is an important part of rolling mill. The rolling pressure of a pair or group of rollers is used to roll steel. It mainly bears the influence of static and dynamic load, wear and temperature change during rolling.

There are many kinds of rolls, including cast steel rolls, cast iron rolls and forging rolls. There are also a few cemented carbide rolls (tungsten steel rolls) on profile mills.

According to the molding method:

Casting roll and forging roll.
Casting roll refers to the type of roll made by casting molten steel or molten iron directly.
Casting roll can be divided into cast steel roll and cast iron roll according to material, and can be divided into integral casting roll and compound casting roll according to the manufacturing method.
The forging roll is classified as follows according to the material:
(1) Forging alloy steel roll;
(2) Forging semi-steel roll;
(3) Forging semi high-speed steel roll;
(4) Forging white cast iron roll.

According to the process method:

Integral roll, metallurgical composite roll and combined roll.

1. Compared with the composite roll, the outer layer and core of the roll body and the roll neck of the integral roll are cast or forged by single material. The different microstructure and properties of the outer layer and neck of the roll body are controlled and adjusted by casting or forging process and heat treatment process. Both forging roll and static casting roll belong to integral roll. Integral roll can be divided into integral casting roll and integral forging roll;

2. There are mainly three kinds of metallurgical composite casting roll, such as semi washing composite casting, overflow (full washing) composite casting and centrifugal composite casting. In addition, there are some special composite methods such as CPC-Continuous Pouring Process for Cladding, spray deposition, HIP-Hot Isostatically Pressed. The composite roll is mainly inlaid composite roll.

roll of rolling mill

According to manufacturing materials:

Cast steel rolls, cast iron rolls and forging rolls.

The commonly used heat treatment types of roller are stress relief annealing, isothermal spheroidizing annealing, diffusion annealing, normalizing, tempering, quenching and cryogenic treatment.

According to the shape of roller body:

There are different classification methods for rollers. The former is mainly used for plate, strip, profile and wire production, while the latter is mainly used for pipe production.

According to contact with rolled piece or not:

It is divided into work roll and backup roll. The roll that directly contacts the rolled piece is called the work roll; the roll which is placed on the back or side of the work roll and does not directly contact the workpiece is called the backup roll in order to increase the stiffness and strength of the work roll.

According to the rack used:
It is divided into primary roll, roughing roll, intermediate roll and finishing roll according to the use stand. According to the variety of rolled products, it can be divided into strip roll, rail beam roll, wire roller and pipe roll, etc. It can also be divided into hot roll and cold roll according to the state of rolled piece during rolling.


According to hardness value:

(1) The shore hardness of soft roll is about 30 ~ 40, which is used in embryo opening machine and roughing mill of large section steel rolling mill.

(2) The shore hardness of semi-hard roll is about 40 ~ 60. It is used in roughing mill of large, medium and small section mills and plate mills.

(3) The shore hardness of hard surface roll is about 60 ~ 85, which is used for roughing mill of thin plate, medium plate, medium section steel and small section steel mill and the support roll of four high rolling mill.

(4) The shore hardness of super hard roll is about 85 ~ 100, which is used in cold rolling mill.

work roll

According to the type of rolling mill:
(1) Flat roll. That is, the roll body of plate and strip mill is cylindrical. Generally, the roll of hot rolling plate rolling mill is made into micro concave shape, which can obtain better shape when heated; the roll of cold rolling plate rolling mill is made of micro convex shape, and the roll will bend during rolling to obtain good shape.

(2) Grooved roll. It is used for rolling large, medium and small section steel, wire rod and blooming. A groove is carved on the roll surface to form the rolled piece.

(3) Special roll. It is used in steel tube rolling mill, wheel rolling mill, steel ball rolling mill and piercing mill. The rolls of this kind of rolling mill have various shapes. For example, the rolls rolled by the principle of cross rolling in steel pipe rolling are conical, waist drum or disc.
 
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Sunday, June 28, 2020

How to Choose Electric Arc Furnace?

electric arc furnace

Electric furnace is the abbreviation of an electric arc furnace. It is a kind of process equipment with scrap as the main raw material, some molten iron or pig iron as the additional part, electricity as the main energy and chemical energy as the auxiliary energy for smelting. Because there is no coking, sintering and iron making process in the process flow, it is also called a short process, which is different from the long process of converter smelting.

Due to the characteristics of low greenhouse gas emission and low energy consumption, the short process has been widely concerned by metallurgical workers and has experienced rapid development in the historical development process. At present, the annual output of converter steel accounts for about 2 / 3 of the world's steel output, and that of electric furnace steel accounts for about 1 / 3 of the world's steel output.

Classification of electric furnaces
According to the power supply mode, the electric furnace can be divided into DC electric furnace and AC electric furnace.

Direct current furnace

DC electric furnace uses DC power as the main energy to provide heat source for the furnace. Generally, there is only one anode on the top of the furnace, forming a circuit with the cathode at the bottom of the furnace. It is characterized by very low electrode consumption, generally less than 1kg / ton steel, and stable molten pool. Because only one electrode and molten pool form arc column, the radiation damage to furnace lining is low, the consumption of refractory materials is relatively low, and the damage of water-cooled plate on the furnace wall is relatively small. The disadvantage is that the bottom electrode is relatively complex, there are several forms of water-cooled, conductive bottom type and needle-like distribution in the bottom refractory, but the service life is relatively short, the maintenance cost is high, resulting in high smelting cost. In addition, the rectifier equipment investment is relatively high, resulting in higher one-time investment.

The direct current electric furnace is not the main equipment in the electric furnace plant. In recent years, new progress has been made in the research of the bottom electrode, which basically solves the problem of short bottom life of the bottom electrode furnace. IThe low consumption of the graphite electrode shows a great advantage in smelting cost. It is expected that the DC electric furnace will be put into production in the new round of electric furnace construction.

Alternating current electric arc furnace

The three-phase alternating current furnace has been used in industrial production for more than 100 years. Its equipment is characterized by the use of three-phase alternating current power supply. When the three-phase graphite electrode contacts with scrap steel, an arc is generated under the action of huge current. The high temperature of the arc is used to melt scrap steel and molten steel. Compared with the direct current furnace, because there are three-phase electrodes, the electrode consumption is higher than that of the direct current furnace. The three-phase electrode has a polar circle, which is relatively close to the furnace wall, and the refractory consumption is relatively high, but the furnace bottom is relatively safer and has a long service life. 

At the beginning of this century, the EAF steelmaking technology has made great progress. On the basis of electric energy as the main energy, auxiliary energy and chemical energy have been introduced. With the development of automatic control technology, power input has increased from ordinary power to high power and ultra-high power, consumption has decreased and productivity has increased. In the case of all scrap steel as raw material, the smelting cycle of this furnace is less than 60 minutes, the power consumption is less than 280kwh / ton steel, the electrode consumption is less than 1.2kg/ton steel, and the annual steel output per nominal capacity has exceeded 10000 tons (i.e. the furnace with a nominal capacity of 100 tons, with an annual steel output of more than 1 million tons), the productivity is greatly improved, and at the same time, the process changes have also derived a variety of furnace types. 
  
 
Common type 3 AC electric furnace


Traditional electric furnace
The traditional electric furnace is the early mainstream electric arc furnace. Scrap steel is added from the top of the furnace, that is, the crown block basket is used to open the furnace cover and scrap steel is added. Each furnace needs to be charged twice to three times or more. The power consumption is relatively high, the electrode consumption is high, the noise is large when melting, the amount of flue gas at the moment of charging is large, the overflow is very obvious, the heat loss is large, the capacity of transformer is large, and the impact on the power grid is relatively large. Generally, mining In addition to the three-electrode holes, the fourth hole of the furnace cover is used for dust removal. The dust removal effect is relatively poor. In areas with strict dust and noise requirements, the way of increasing smoke hood for dust removal or building isolation hood, commonly known as doghouse, is used for secondary dust collection and noise collection. The early electric furnaces in China belong to the traditional type. However, the furnace technology is relatively mature, low failure rate, wide application, strong adaptability of raw materials, but the main technical and economic indicators are general.

Continuous charge furnace

In recent years, the continuous charging type electric furnace is one of the more furnace types newly put into operation. The biggest feature is that the scrap steel is continuously added in the smelting process, the furnace cover can be kept open, the energy input can be kept uninterrupted, the huge energy loss can be avoided, and the smoke and dust can not overflow. The high-temperature flue gas extracted from the furnace passes through the continuous charging tunnel, which also plays the role of preheating the scrap steel The consumption can be reduced by 30kwh-100kwh, and the molten pool is relatively stable, which reduces the huge noise and impact on the power grid produced by the traditional electric furnace during the electrode well penetration period, and the electrode consumption per ton of steel can be reduced by 0.1kg-0.3kg. In addition, in the smelting process, the molten pool is stable, the preheating temperature of scrap is generally not more than 400 ℃, the smelting cycle is shortened, the productivity is improved, the main technical and economic indicators are superior to the traditional electric furnace, but the one-time investment is higher than the traditional electric furnace.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

What Are the Main Types of Continuous Caster?

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Vertical continuous caster

The vertical continuous caster is the main model before the 1950s-1960s. The steel pouring system, mold, cutting device and billet outlet position of the caster are all arranged on the vertical axis of the caster, and the whole equipment occupies a large space in the workshop.

During the production of the vertical continuous caster, the slab solidifies in the mold and secondary cooling section. Because of the vertical arrangement, the non-metallic inclusions in the liquid metal are easy to float up, the heat dissipation around the slab is relatively uniform, and the slab is not affected by other bending forces during the drawing process. The quality of the slab is good and it is not easy to crack, so it is more suitable for the production of alloy steel and other crack sensitive products steel grade of the sensor. However, the height of the caster is too high, the investment of infrastructure and equipment is large, and the maintenance is also difficult. Because of the high head casting, the lower section of the slab is prone to bulging deformation under the hydrostatic pressure of the molten steel, so it is only suitable for the production of small section slab.

Vertical bending caster
The vertical bending caster is a transitional type of caster developed on the basis of the vertical caster. The difference between the upper part and the vertical continuous caster is that the vertical bending continuous caster uses the top bending device to bend the slab 90°after it is completely solidified, so that the slab can be drawn out and cut in the horizontal direction. The vertical bending caster reduces the height of the whole machine in part, but because it is bent up after the slab is completely solidified, it is easy to crack and other defects in production, which is mainly used in the production of small section billet.

Arc caster

Arc caster is the most widely used type in the world. Its mold, secondary cooling section and billet straightener are all arranged on 1 / 4 circumference of the same radius. The billet is completely solidified in 1 / 4 circumference. After a point of straightening at the horizontal tangent line, it must be pulled out in the horizontal direction, and then cut to a certain length.

1. Full arc caster

Full arc continuous casting machine is also called single-point straightening arc anchor machine. The secondary cooling device of the mold and the tension straightening device of the full arc caster is all arranged on around 1 / 4 arc. The billets form an arc in the mold, move along the arc track after pulling out, and receive water spray cooling until complete solidification. After full solidification, the billet is straightened to the horizontal cutting point, and then the continuous casting machine is pulled out to cut into a fixed length, which is output from the horizontal direction. The height of the continuous caster is basically equal to the arc radius. Generally, the external arc radius of the continuous casting machine is called the arc radius of the arc continuous casting machine.

The main features of full arc caster are summarized as follows:

Main advantages:

(1) Because it is arranged in the range of 1 / 4 arc, its height is lower than the vertical and vertical bending type, the equipment quality is lighter, the investment cost is lower, the equipment installation and maintenance are convenient, so it is widely used;

(2) Because of the low height of the equipment, the static pressure on the billet during solidification is relatively small, which can reduce the internal crack and segregation caused by bulging deformation, and improve the casting speed and quality.

Main disadvantages:

(1) During the solidification process of molten steel, the non-metallic inclusions tend to accumulate in the inner arc, which is easy to form the defect of inclusions enrichment at about 1 / 4 of the side of the inner arc;

(2) In order to prevent internal crack, it is required that the slab should be completely solidified before straightening, which limits the improvement of drawing speed and affects the production capacity.

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2. Multiple points straightening arc caster

The schematic diagram of multiple points straightening arc caster is shown in the figure below. With the increase of casting speed, the slab can't be completely solidified when it reaches the straightening point. When the slab with the liquid core is straightened at a single point, due to a large amount of solid-liquid interface deformation, the central area of the slab is prone to crack. Therefore, the multiple point straightening technology is used to disperse the total strain into the strain of each straightening point, so as to reduce the solid-liquid interface deformation rate. In this way, the billet can be straightened with a liquid core without internal cracks, which is conducive to improving the drawing speed.

3. Arc continuous caster with direct mold

The straight mold arc caster (straight arc Caster) adopts the straight mold, which is equipped with a straight section of 2.5-3.5m below the mold. After the straight section, the slab with the liquid core is gradually bent into an arc, and the subsequent process is exactly the same as that of the multiple point straightening arc caster.

Main advantages:

(1) The advantages of the vertical continuous caster are retained. During the solidification process of molten steel in the straight mold and its lower straight section, it is beneficial to the floatation and uniform distribution of large inclusions in the molten steel. The defect of inclusion enrichment at 1 / 4 of the inner arc side of the slab is avoided, and the effect of high-purity steel production is obvious;

(2) Because the billet is curved into an arc with liquid core, it still has the advantages of low equipment height and low construction cost.

Main disadvantages: the straight arc caster has one more bending process, which increases the possibility of cracks on the outer arc side for crack sensitive steel.

It should be said that the straight mold arc caster is a new type of caster integrating the advantages of vertical and arc caster. At present, more and more slab casters in steel plants adopt this type of caster, because it can better meet the requirements of slab quality and improve production efficiency.

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