EP0342082B1 - Procédé de réfroidissement d'un produit métallique coulé en continu - Google Patents

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EP0342082B1
EP0342082B1 EP89401150A EP89401150A EP0342082B1 EP 0342082 B1 EP0342082 B1 EP 0342082B1 EP 89401150 A EP89401150 A EP 89401150A EP 89401150 A EP89401150 A EP 89401150A EP 0342082 B1 EP0342082 B1 EP 0342082B1
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Manuel Bobadilla
Michel Martinot
Jean-Marc Jolivet
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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
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  • the present invention relates to a method of cooling a metal product during continuous casting intended to reduce, or even eliminate the presence of a large segregated zone in the central part of the product.
  • This process is advantageously applicable to the continuous casting of steel products known to be difficult to cast according to this technique, such as steels having a wide solidification interval, that is to say for example those whose carbon content is between 0, 25 and 1.5% approximately.
  • pasty state is meant a state where the metal is at a temperature between the liquidus and the solidus, and where coexist in variable proportions of the liquid metal and solid crystals.
  • the interfaces between these various concentric bodies constitute, respectively, as we are used to designating them, the fronts of ending and beginning solidification.
  • the liquid core disappears (bottom of the beginning solidification well), and only a solidified crust and a pasty core remain.
  • the pasty zone disappears in turn (closing of the finishing solidification well) and the product is completely solidified.
  • the forced cooling of the product in the mold and after its exit from the mold provides rapid growth in the thickness of solidified skin, in order to limit the risks of breakthrough and significantly increase the speed of extraction of the product, on which the productivity of the continuous casting machine.
  • the solubility in iron of alloying elements is lower when the iron is in the solid state than in the liquid state.
  • alloying elements such as carbon
  • the other alloying elements have a behavior similar to that of carbon, and the location of the segregated zones can be deduced from the tests commonly called "Baumann imprints" which make it possible to identify the distribution of the sulfur on a polished section of the product.
  • These segregated zones also identifiable on metallographic attacks, have a detrimental influence on the homogeneity of the mechanical properties of the product.
  • the relatively higher concentration of carbon in the center leads to higher hardness in these areas than in the rest of the product after rolling.
  • the object of the present invention is to propose a simple and economical solution for reducing, or even eliminating the highly segregated zones in the core of the continuously cast products, by attacking the very cause responsible for their formation. It can be added to or a substitute for electromagnetic stirring in the end of pasty solidification zone.
  • the subject of the invention is a method of cooling a metal product, in particular steel, during continuous casting, characterized in that a forced cooling of the product is carried out, while the product is in pasty solidification phase, this cooling being carried out so that the differential thermal contraction between the pasty core and the already completely solidified crust which envelops it, permanently causes a tightening effect of the heart by the crust.
  • This cooling is carried out in an area which extends at least between the place where, in the absence of such cooling, the rate of cooling of the pasty core of the product would exceed that of the surface of the product, and a place where the thermomechanical behavior of the pasty core during cooling is identical to that of the solidified outer crust.
  • the invention consists in fact in using the solidified outer crust as a vice which accompanies the contraction of the heart during cooling.
  • the inside diameter of the ring formed by the solidified crust must decrease faster than the diameter of the pasty core would decrease if the crust had no effect on the heart.
  • This vice is put into action, by thermal, simply by means of an accelerated cooling of the surface of the product in the lower part of the machine, where usually the product was allowed to cool naturally.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic longitudinal section of a conventional continuous casting installation, and in particular it shows the product being solidified.
  • a pocket not shown, feeds liquid steel 1 to a distribution basket 2.
  • the liquid steel 1 then flows into one or more ingot molds 3 with copper or copper alloy walls energetically cooled by water. It is in each of these ingot molds or primary cooling zones X that the solidification of a product 4 begins at its periphery, which thus takes its final section.
  • the mold shown in Figure 1 has a curvature, and it is found on the product. The case of the right ingot mold giving birth to a right product is also encountered in industrial practice.
  • the secondary cooling zone Y in which the product 4 is sprayed over a variable length according to the machines by a ramp of injectors 5. These project all around the product a cooling fluid , usually sprayed or atomized water.
  • a cooling fluid usually sprayed or atomized water.
  • the natural cooling zone Z where a conventional machine such as that shown schematically does not have means for cooling the product.
  • a conventional machine such as that shown schematically does not have means for cooling the product.
  • FIG. 1 makes it possible to distinguish several concentric regions inside the product during casting, corresponding to the physical state of the material which they contain.
  • a product section located in the upper part of the machine for example in zone Y
  • the metal is entirely in the liquid state; the section of this zone decreases as the product solidifies, and after the point of closure of the liquid well 7, there is no longer any liquid metal alone.
  • a pasty region 8 corresponding to the metal being solidified, contains both liquid and solid. The proportion of the latter increases as the temperature decreases.
  • the crust 9 consists only of solidified metal. Beyond the closing point of the ending solidification well 10, this region 9 covers the entire product, the solidification of which is then completed.
  • the zone of the installation which extends between the meniscus and the level corresponding to the point of closure of the finishing solidification well 10 is called "metallurgical length".
  • Figure 2 shows the continuous casting machine of Figure 1 modified according to the invention.
  • the elements common with Figure 1 are identified by the same numbers.
  • the difference between the two configurations lies in the addition to the original machine of a second ramp of injectors 11, located in the zone Z of the machine where the product completes its solidification.
  • Curves A and B correspond to the case of FIG. 1, where the product, in the terminal part of the machine, is not subjected to any forced cooling.
  • Curve A represents the rate of surface cooling of the product. It shows that this speed remains substantially constant (a loss of 0.5 ° C / s) over the entire length of the zone considered.
  • Curve B represents the rate of cooling of the pasty core of the product. It shows that, at the start of the zone considered, the temperature of the pasty core remains practically constant, as the cooling rate appears close to 0 ° C / s. It is only from a distance to the meniscus of approximately 8 m that the cooling of the pasty heart accelerates significantly. At a distance from the meniscus of 9.5 m, curve B intersects curve A.
  • Curves C and D correspond to the case of FIG. 2, where the product, in accordance with the invention, is subjected to forced cooling in the zone Z at the end of solidification by means of the injector ramp 11.
  • These curves have been traced in the hypothesis where the product is watered, between the distances to the meniscus 8.40 m and 11.20 m, with water at a flow rate of 12 m3 per hour and per m2 of product sprayed, this flow rate being evenly distributed over the entire watering area.
  • the distance to the meniscus of 8.40 m was chosen from curves A and B in Figure 3, that is to say a distance which is less than the distance of 9.50 m at which, in the absence of such a watering zone (case of FIG.
  • the rate of cooling of the pasty core begins to exceed the rate of cooling of the surface of the product.
  • Curve C represents, when the product is watered according to the invention, the rate of cooling of the surface of the product
  • curve D represents, under the same conditions, the rate of cooling of the pasty core. Upstream of the cooling zone, these curves merge with curves A and B respectively. From the start of the forced cooling zone, the cooling of the surface accelerates suddenly, reaching 9 ° C / s at a distance at the meniscus 9 m. Then, the cooling becomes more and more slow, because of the progressive deterioration of the quality of the heat exchanges between the cooling water (whose flow and temperature are constant) and the product (whose temperature decreases as and as it progresses through the cooling zone).
  • the recommended cooling water flows are of the order of 8 to 15 m3 / h and per m2 of sprinkled metal. Preferably, a flow rate of 12 m3 / m2.h is chosen.
  • This process is easily adaptable to all continuous casting machines intended for the manufacture of steel products. It is more specifically designed for the casting of steel grades containing approximately from 0.25 to 1.5% of carbon.
  • a variant of this method would consist in designing the cooling ramp 11 so that the flow of cooling fluid varies between the start and the end of the cooling zone.
  • the value of the average overall flow over the entire area would be unchanged compared to the configuration described above. In this way, it would be possible to better control the flow of heat extracted from the product along the cooling zone, in order to attenuate the reduction, visible in FIG. 3, of the speed of cooling at the surface of the product. Thus, one would increase the probability of having until the extreme end of solidification a cooling at heart less rapid than in skin.
  • the invention is not limited to the examples described, but extends to multiple variants or equivalents insofar as the characteristics mentioned in the appended claims are respected.
  • the method according to the invention can be applied to vertical, straight or curved continuous casting machines, as well as to horizontal continuous casting machines, as well as to existing or future installations for casting. direct continuous of thin products.
  • the invention does not apply restrictively to steel semi-finished products, but extends its field of application to any metallurgical product which is poured continuously, or which may be.
  • the invention applies equally to any metallurgical product cast continuously whatever its format: blooms, billets or slabs, in particular those intended for slitting to form blooms.

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