EP0294451A1 - Procede de coulage continu de barres metalliques. - Google Patents

Procede de coulage continu de barres metalliques.

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EP0294451A1
EP0294451A1 EP88900569A EP88900569A EP0294451A1 EP 0294451 A1 EP0294451 A1 EP 0294451A1 EP 88900569 A EP88900569 A EP 88900569A EP 88900569 A EP88900569 A EP 88900569A EP 0294451 A1 EP0294451 A1 EP 0294451A1
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continuous casting
pressure vessel
metal
casting mold
casting
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Wilhelm Eul
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Heide Hein Engineering & Design
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
    • B22D11/04—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths into open-ended moulds
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
    • B22D11/14—Plants for continuous casting
    • B22D11/145—Plants for continuous casting for upward casting
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
    • B22D11/10—Supplying or treating molten metal
    • B22D11/106—Shielding the molten jet
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
    • B22D11/14—Plants for continuous casting

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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for the continuous casting of metal strands from refractory metals, in particular steel strands, with cross sections close to the final dimensions, according to the principle of the communicating tubes, in which or in which the casting metal in each case from a pressure vessel through a sewer pipe is pressed into a continuous casting mold.
  • a large number of continuous casting processes are known for producing semi-finished products or primary material for rolling mills. Some of these processes are also used on an industrial scale. This includes circular arc continuous casting plants, vertical-flbbiege continuous casting plants, die casting processes and horizontal continuous casting processes.
  • the present invention is based on a state of the art, as can be seen in the "Manual of Continuous Casting" from Herrmann Verlag Aluminum, Düsseldorf, edition 1958, page 691 with picture 1930 and page 594 with picture 1940.
  • a pouring funnel with reoxidation in a system of rising castings and a communicating pipe, a pouring funnel with reoxidation, a fixed vertical or horizontal continuous casting mold and either a steep transition from the vertical to the horizontal or only a vertical strand withdrawal are known.
  • the object of the invention is to design a ladle insert in such a way that the pouring pouring metal is no longer exposed to reoxidation on the way to solidification, degassing the pouring metal (also unoccupied melts) immediately before the casting process to be able to make a temperature and analysis correction shortly before pouring and to achieve the control of the flow of casting metal to the continuous casting mold without additional manual or equipment call wall.
  • the stated object is achieved on the basis of the method described at the outset in that the casting metal is pressed from a higher-level storage container through the communicating sewer pipe into a pressure vessel with a gas dome, that the casting metal is passed through a vertical dip tube which is immersed in the casting metal through the gas dome , is transported into a substantially vertically oscillating, independent continuous casting mold and that the casting strand which is being formed is deflected and drawn off in an arc from the vertical to the horizontal.
  • This process combines the advantage of the air being completely sealed off from the casting metal until the largely solidified metal strand emerges at the exit from the continuous casting mold.
  • the metal inflow can be easily controlled by pressure control via the gas dome. With the rising casting, a dense, gap-free structure is created. The casting metal can be degassed immediately before the actual casting process without significant temperature losses. There is also no slag fishing in front of the mold. Semi and unsteady steel can also be cast using the process.
  • the device for carrying out the method is based on a pressure vessel and a continuous casting mold connected by means of a sewer pipe.
  • an exchangeable pan vessel is connected upstream of the pressure vessel via the sewer pipe, that an immersion tube is immersed through a gas dome in the casting metal located in the pressure vessel and is attached to an oscillatable continuous casting mold arranged above the pressure vessel and that a sealing compensator for the mold oscillation movement is arranged between the pressure vessel and the continuous casting mold.
  • the casting metal can be degassed during the casting process by connecting a vacuum chamber with airtight connection connections between the ladle vessel and the pressure vessel.
  • the sewer pipe opens into the pressure vessel in the region of the pressure vessel bottom, advantageously the shape and the length of the sewer pipe can be influenced, determined or selected.
  • the cast metal level in the vacuum chamber run higher than the top of the horizontally removable metal strand.
  • the desired pressure conditions in the cast metal or in the solidifying metal strand are thereby set.
  • a casting tract is connected upstream of the pressure vessel, which has a degassing device and / or a pressure reservoir and / or an alloy addition device and / or a heating device.
  • slides are arranged next to the vacuum chamber and in front of the pressure vessel. These ensure that the pressure is maintained in parts of the system if there is a drop in pressure in other areas.
  • Another group of features consists of the fact that the pressure vessel has a considerably larger cross section than the sewer pipe or the immersion pipe. This measure allows the formation of the gas dome. Elimination and degassing processes, if desired, as well as purification processes can be facilitated.
  • An interchangeability of the immersion tube is advantageously achieved and facilitated in that a frame is arranged between the compensator and the continuous casting mold, which is carried or driven by a mold oscillation drive and which also carries the continuous casting mold.
  • the formation of the cast strand or metal strand is also favored in that the continuous casting mold formed from cooled copper plates is provided with semi-permeable strips at the inlet and that these strips are provided with lubricant channels which are connected to a high-pressure lubricant pump. This will ver the friction of the metal strand reduces and at the same time supports the detachment of the strand shell being formed.
  • a slide is arranged between the continuous casting mold and the dip tube. This measure allows the continuous casting mold to be changed without changing the dip tube, e.g. when changing from a format of the metal string to a new format.
  • the compensator consists of a labyrinth lower part fastened to the pressure vessel and a labyrinth upper part fastened to the continuous casting mold or to the slide, that the labyrinth lower part and the labyrinth upper part are provided with interacting teeth, the latter
  • the stroke of movement corresponds to the stroke of the continuous casting mold.
  • sealing elements are that the lower part of the labyrinth and the upper part of the labyrinth form a cylindrical, external seal. Such a seal can be better controlled.
  • the seal can be formed either in the manner of a piston ring seal or in the manner of an annular bellows.
  • the seal is cooled. Such cooling can take place from the outside or from the inside or on both sides.
  • the invention is not restricted to the use of a single-core continuous casting installation. It is therefore proposed that several parallel metal strands can be produced where one or two pan vessels are provided and that a track runs in front of the continuous casting molds across the metal strands, on which one or more manipulators for changing continuous casting molds, compensators or dip tubes can be moved. Only one casting section is therefore necessary for all continuous casting molds. This arrangement also allows casting to be interrupted on any strand without having to stop pouring on the other strands.
  • an emergency casting device is arranged under the pressure vessel or the connected sewer pipe.
  • FIG. 2 shows a section with respect to a continuous casting mold with dip tube and pressure vessel in a vertical section, compared to FIG. 1 on an enlarged scale
  • FIG. 5 shows a partial cross section like FIG. 4 through the compensator in a second flow guide form
  • FIG. 6 shows a plan for a multi-strand casting facility in a first embodiment
  • FIG. 7 shows a floor plan like FIG. 6 for a multi-strand casting installation in a second embodiment.
  • the cast metal flows from a pan vessel 1, regulated by a pan slide 2, into a pan under the pan vessel 1 arranged vacuum chamber 3.
  • the vacuum chamber 3 is connected to a machine (not shown) which generates the vacuum) by means of a suction pipe 4.
  • An alloy addition device 5 for alloying agents and / or scrap is also provided on the vacuum chamber 3.
  • a gas-permeable insert 6 is arranged in the bottom region of the vacuum chamber 3.
  • a slide 7 arranged in the bottom area forms the bottom closure of the vacuum chamber 3 at the beginning of the casting process and, if necessary.
  • a sewer pipe 8 made of refractory material, which consists of a vertically downward section 8a, a horizontal rib section 8b and a vertically upward section 8c.
  • the sewer pipe 8 is provided at a suitable point with a heating device 36 in order to heat up the cast metal if necessary.
  • a closure device 11 is provided in the area of the deflection of the section 8b into the section 8c which, if necessary, enables the drainage of the sewer pipe 8.
  • the end of section 8c is formed by a slide 12. This slide 12 can also serve as a bottom closure of a pressure vessel 13. It is also possible to provide a second slide.
  • the pressure vessel 13 is used to hold the liquid casting metal shortly before entering a dip tube 14, which in turn feeds the casting metal to a continuous casting mold 15, which can basically consist of an arcuate casting mold or also of a straight continuous casting mold. There are special advantages associated with both systems.
  • the immersion tube 14 is designed in accordance with the format of the metal strand 10 to be cast or the corresponding continuous casting mold 15.
  • the pressure vessel 13 is enlarged in its cross section compared to the sewer pipe 8 and is under a gas pressure, which is built up in a gas dome 20 and which is the mass of the continuous casting mold 15 and a mold oscillation drive 30 partially compensated. Furthermore, the enlarged cross section serves to calm the flow of the cast metal and to separate metal-accompanying substances, which are subtracted from time to time.
  • the gas pressure depends on the distance of the casting metal Ispiegets 9 above the top of the horizontally removable metal strand 10.
  • a compensator 16 and a slide 17 are arranged above the pressure vessel 13.
  • the compensator 16 compensates for the mold stroke with respect to the fixed pressure vessel 13 and consists of a lower labyrinth part 16a and an upper labyrinth part 16b.
  • the gas-tight closure of lower part 16a and upper part 16b is achieved by means of piston rings 16d.
  • the lower part 16a and the upper part 16b are supplied with coolant via a line system I6e, and the gas pressure established in the pressure vessel 13 is controlled and monitored via a gas line 16f.
  • the labyrinth upper part 16b automatically falls onto the labyrinth lower part 16a and, as a result of a toothing 16g, blocks the flow of the casting metal and prevents damage to the piston rings 16d.
  • the lower labyrinth part 16a and the upper labyrinth part 16b form a cylindrical, outer seal 16h (FIG. 4).
  • This seal 16h is formed either in the manner of a piston seal 16d (FIG. 4) or in the manner of an annular bellows 16c (FIG. 5).
  • the lower labyrinth part 16a and the upper labyrinth part 16b are connected by means of a flexible element, ie with a ring collar 16c, which is protected from damage by the toothing 16g.
  • the pressure vessel 13 has a gas inlet 1fl and a slag tapping device 19.
  • the continuous casting mold 15 is equipped with a second slide, not shown, which lies above the slide 17.
  • the continuous casting mold 15 also has copper plates 22 (FIG. 2) which form the format for the metal strand. They can be designed for a block, tube or plate continuous casting mold 15 and are cooled from the outside.
  • semipermeable strips 23 are arranged in a ring, which serve to supply and distribute suitable lubricants.
  • the strips 23 have channels 24.
  • the channels 24 are segmented and are supplied with lubricant through a line 36 by means of a multi-cylinder Indian injection pump (not shown).
  • an (internally) cooled frame 26 Arranged between the compensator 16 and the continuous casting mold 15 is an (internally) cooled frame 26 which is carried or driven by the mold oscillation drive 30 and which also carries the continuous casting mold 15.
  • the sewer pipe 8 runs in the axis of symmetry of the continuous casting coils 15, i.e. perpendicular to the strand extraction direction 31.
  • two ladle vessels 1 are expediently provided on the left and right of the system. This enables a smooth change of the ladle vessels 1 without the need for a conventional ladle turret with inevitable ladle changing times.
  • the pouring stand front 27 (FIG. 1) facing away from the plant part of the strand discharge 37 generally serves to control the plant and the service.
  • a manipulator 20 is provided on rails 28a in order to enable the handling of the following and other devices: the immersion tube 14 of the compensator 16 of the slide 17 of the continuous casting mold 15 of segments 29 of the strand guide.
  • the coiled oscillation drive 30 and segment drives are located under the strand discharge 37.
  • a slag receiving device 32 which can be moved transversely to the metal lines 10 is provided directly next to this.
  • a tapping device 33 is provided for receiving the cast metal from the casting tract in an emergency and for other cases. It can be moved across by means of a trolley 34 and is disposed of by crane outside the casting area.
  • a reel device 35 is provided in the strand discharge 36 for handling thin metal strands 10.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Continuous Casting (AREA)
  • Investigating And Analyzing Materials By Characteristic Methods (AREA)
  • Wire Processing (AREA)
  • Casting Support Devices, Ladles, And Melt Control Thereby (AREA)
  • Treatment Of Steel In Its Molten State (AREA)

Abstract

Au cours d'un processus de coulage continu de métaux à point de fusion élevé, se présentant sous forme de barres d'une section de dimensions quasi-définitives, selon le principe de tubes communicants, le métal qui s'écoule n'est plus exposé à la réoxydation lorsqu'il est en cours de solidification, le métal fondu (de même que les masses en fusion d'acier effervescent) peut être dégazé immédiatement avant le coulage et une correction de température et d'analyse peut avoir lieu immédiatement avant cette opération. Ces conditions peuvent être remplies en faisant passer sous pression dans un récipient sous pression (13) à coupole de gaz (20), le métal fondu depuis un réservoir situé à un niveau plus élevé, par l'intermédiaire du tube communicant (8). Au moyen d'un tube vertical (14) plongé dans le métal fondu, on fait alors arriver celui-ci, en le faisant passer d'abord par la coupole de gaz, dans un moule oscillant indépendant pratiquement vertical (15). La barre de coulée en formation constante est, pendant qu'elle se forme, cintrée tout en étant amenée de la position verticale à la position horizontale, puis enlevée.
EP88900569A 1986-12-22 1987-12-19 Procede de coulage continu de barres metalliques Expired - Lifetime EP0294451B1 (fr)

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AT88900569T ATE73369T1 (de) 1986-12-22 1987-12-19 Verfahren und vorrichtung zum kontinuierlichen giessen von metallstraengen.

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DE3643940 1986-12-22
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DE3736956 1987-10-31
DE19873736956 DE3736956A1 (de) 1986-12-22 1987-10-31 Verfahren und vorrichtung zum kontinuierlichen giessen von metallstraengen aus hochschmelzenden metallen, insbesondere von stahlstraengen

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ATE73369T1 (de) 1992-03-15
BR8707607A (pt) 1989-10-03
JPH01501605A (ja) 1989-06-08
WO1988004586A1 (fr) 1988-06-30
RU2056216C1 (ru) 1996-03-20
KR890700412A (ko) 1989-04-24
US4932462A (en) 1990-06-12
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