EP0514383B1 - Verfahren und anlage zur wiederherstellung der feuerfesten auskleidung von giesspfannen - Google Patents

Verfahren und anlage zur wiederherstellung der feuerfesten auskleidung von giesspfannen Download PDF

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EP0514383B1
EP0514383B1 EP91901674A EP91901674A EP0514383B1 EP 0514383 B1 EP0514383 B1 EP 0514383B1 EP 91901674 A EP91901674 A EP 91901674A EP 91901674 A EP91901674 A EP 91901674A EP 0514383 B1 EP0514383 B1 EP 0514383B1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22DCASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D41/00Casting melt-holding vessels, e.g. ladles, tundishes, cups or the like
    • B22D41/02Linings
    • B22D41/023Apparatus used for making or repairing linings
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27DDETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS, IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FURNACE
    • F27D1/00Casings; Linings; Walls; Roofs
    • F27D1/16Making or repairing linings increasing the durability of linings or breaking away linings
    • F27D1/1694Breaking away the lining or removing parts thereof

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  • the invention relates to a method of the type corresponding to the preamble of claim 1 and a system according to the preamble of claim 2.
  • metallurgical vessels have been increasingly no longer lined with refractory bricks, but with the help of a casting technique in which the space between a template or shape that determines the desired clear interior of the pan or other metallurgical vessel is determined. and a mostly thixotropic fireproof casting compound is filled into the vessel wall to be delivered, which, due to its thixotropic behavior, is very free-flowing under the influence of vibrations (usually the template or shape) even at low water contents and fills every cavity.
  • the tools follow the large contours of the old infeed.
  • the template is again introduced into the metallurgical vessel with the old delivery cleaned in this way, whereupon the space between the template and the old delivery is filled again with thixotropic casting compound under the action of vibrations. In this way, up to 50% of the expensive delivery material can be saved.
  • the previous treatment of the surface of the old inlay results in a good bond to the newly applied refractory mass.
  • the invention has for its object to be able to restore the refractory lining of metallurgical vessels in an economical manner even in such cases.
  • a high-temperature burner with a water-cooled lance which can be moved up and down and rotated, can be moved on rails in the depth direction of the pan, so that the burner can be guided spirally and helically at a suitable distance over the inner surface of the pan.
  • the burner works with gas or oil and oxygen and can be operated in such a way that it works in a reducing manner, ie it does not develop brown fumes.
  • the burner lance can be guided in a circle so that the adhering slag, slag steel mixtures or steel residues become highly liquid in the floor and wall area and flow out of the inclined lower area of the pan from its mouth to the outside, where it flows into a slag bucket or get into a sand bed. In this way, the pan is cleaned within a few minutes.
  • All that remains on the old refractory lining is a thin, glass-like, smooth slag coating, which is roughened mechanically after the pan has cooled down in order to achieve a good primer for the new lining material.
  • the roughening can be done by the above-mentioned slag peeling robot, which partially or completely removes the slag layer and in any case leaves a rough surface of the old delivery.
  • the template is then reinserted into the pan according to the method already known and the space between the template and the surface of the remaining lining is filled with new casting compound.
  • the infeed can be restored in the shortest possible time without great mechanical stress on the permanent feed and without extensive stripping work.
  • a burner operated with oxygen has flame temperatures in the range of 3000 ° C.
  • the one in the pan Remaining materials to be removed, such as slag, flake steel mixtures or steel residues, have melting points in the range from approximately 1000 to 1500 °.
  • the temperature of the pan is still very high from the last pour, so that the burner does not have to heat the pan from ambient temperature. Rather, the burner only has to generate the last temperature peak in order to liquefy the total amount of undesirable constituents adhering to the surface, which is accomplished in a short time.
  • burners come into consideration which have features of DE-PS 15 29 201 and 31 51 479 in particular with regard to the burner nozzle.
  • the roughening device is used, which is known from DE-OS 37 41 073.
  • A reveals a freshly delivered ladle 10, which consists of a pot-shaped housing 1 made of sheet steel that tapers slightly downwards, on the inside of which a so-called delivery or lining made of refractory material is applied, essentially of a constant thickness of a few 10 centimeters.
  • the pan 10 can be gripped and displaced by the overhead crane on side lugs 3 in the upper region.
  • the steel is subjected to a metallurgical treatment, for example by blowing in oxygen, argon or the like, and then poured off.
  • a metallurgical treatment for example by blowing in oxygen, argon or the like, and then poured off.
  • the slag is poured off and the delivery of the pan 10 looks as indicated in B.
  • the infeed is beared, ie thick slag layers or beads have set up, as is indicated by the cross-hatching that represents the slag S.
  • Steel residues or steel slag mixtures can also be present.
  • Thinner slag layers also adhere in the areas 2 ′ or the surface areas of the infeed 2 of slag are penetrated to a certain depth, which reduces their fire resistance.
  • the coarse beads on the upper edge of the pan are broken out with a suitable device, and the pan is then placed with the indoor crane lying on a stand 4 located nearby, that is to say as long as the delivery 2 is still glowing bright red from the last cast , so that the wall of the infeed 2 in its essentially cylindrical region makes an angle 5 of approximately 5 to 30 ° with the horizontal, the inclination being reproduced particularly strongly in the schematic representation of the exemplary embodiment.
  • the opening 6 of the pan 10 points downwards.
  • a carriage or carriage 7 is now brought up on rails, which carries a lance 8 with a high-temperature burner at the free end, which can be inserted into the interior of the pan 10 and can be pivoted both in the direction of arrow 11 and in the direction of arrow 12 as can also be moved into the pan 10 in the direction of arrow 13 in the longitudinal direction of the lance.
  • the carriage or carriage 7 also carries a heat shield 14, which covers the opening 6 of the pan 10.
  • the high-temperature burner 9 is operated with a suitable gaseous or liquid fuel and pure oxygen and generates flame temperatures in the range of 3000 ° C., which melts the still red-hot slag, the melting point of which is in the range of 1000-1500 ° C. the heat shield 14 avoids heat losses and prevents excessive radiation on the carriage 7.
  • the melted slag flows downward from the opening 6 of the pan 10 in the direction of the arrows 15 into the slag bucket 16.
  • the pan 10 has the opportunity to cool between phase C and phase D.
  • the pan is placed in a pit 17 by means of the indoor crane.
  • the slag robot 20 comprises a machine frame 18 which projects over the pan 10 and on which a vertical column 19 can be raised and lowered in the direction of the arrow 21 and rotatable about its longitudinal axis in the direction of the arrow 25.
  • pivotable arms 22 are attached, at the free ends of which rotatable tools 23 are provided in the form of castors studded with hard metal pins 24, which follow the contour of the inner surface of the infeed 2 and under the action of vibrators a hammering attack Execute the slag layer and remove or at least roughen it without significantly changing the relief of the inner surface 26 and removing a lot of the healthy material of the delivery 2.
  • phase E the slag robot is removed and instead a slightly conical template 27 is introduced into the interior of the pan 10 on a carrying device 28.
  • the template 27 determines the inner surface configuration of the infeed 2, as can be seen from A.
  • Refractory feed mass 30 introduced, which has a consistency like slightly damp sand, but becomes quasi liquid under the action of the vibrators 31 working against the template 27 and fills the entire space 32 between the template 27 and the inner surface 26 homogeneously.
  • the refractory mass introduced into the intermediate space 32 is dried by means of a ladle fire 33 and combines with the old delivery to form a new compact and homogeneous delivery 2, so that the ladle 10 returns to phase A and again a ladle trip can compete.
  • a high-temperature burner 9 In tests in a 95-ton steel pan with an inner diameter of approx. 2600 mm and an inner height of approx. 3440 mm, a high-temperature burner 9 was used, which has features of DE-PS 15 29 201 and 31 in particular with regard to the nozzle design 51 479 and was arranged with the mouth of the nozzle approximately in the middle of the clear interior of the pan, as shown in C.
  • the high-temperature burner 9 was operated with approx. 280 Nm3 / h propane and 900 Nm3 / h oxygen without the addition of air. He worked for about 15 minutes until the slag had melted out sufficiently.

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  • Furnace Housings, Linings, Walls, And Ceilings (AREA)
  • Carbon Steel Or Casting Steel Manufacturing (AREA)
  • Casting Support Devices, Ladles, And Melt Control Thereby (AREA)
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