EP0691895B1 - Procede et dispositif de regulation du niveau de metal liquide dans une lingotiere de coulee continue des metaux - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif de regulation du niveau de metal liquide dans une lingotiere de coulee continue des metaux Download PDF

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EP0691895B1
EP0691895B1 EP94909977A EP94909977A EP0691895B1 EP 0691895 B1 EP0691895 B1 EP 0691895B1 EP 94909977 A EP94909977 A EP 94909977A EP 94909977 A EP94909977 A EP 94909977A EP 0691895 B1 EP0691895 B1 EP 0691895B1
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Thierry Banny
Jo Drouot
Jean-François Martin
Michèle NADIF
Didier Becler
Hervé Dusser
Alain Mouchette
Odile Thomardel
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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
    • B22D11/16—Controlling or regulating processes or operations
    • B22D11/18—Controlling or regulating processes or operations for pouring
    • B22D11/181—Controlling or regulating processes or operations for pouring responsive to molten metal level or slag level
    • B22D11/186—Controlling or regulating processes or operations for pouring responsive to molten metal level or slag level by using electric, magnetic, sonic or ultrasonic means
    • 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
    • B22D11/16—Controlling or regulating processes or operations
    • B22D11/20—Controlling or regulating processes or operations for removing cast stock
    • B22D11/201—Controlling or regulating processes or operations for removing cast stock responsive to molten metal level or slag level
    • B22D11/205—Controlling or regulating processes or operations for removing cast stock responsive to molten metal level or slag level by using electric, magnetic, sonic or ultrasonic means

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  • the invention relates to the field of continuous casting of metals, in particular steel. More specifically, it relates to the regulation of the level of liquid metal present in a continuous casting mold.
  • the molten metal flowing from the ladle first passes through an intermediate container, called a distributor.
  • a distributor One of the roles of the distributor is to orient the liquid metal towards the single oscillating ingot mold or, more generally, the multiple oscillating ingot molds of the continuous casting machine, in which the solidification of steel products begins (slabs, blooms or billets).
  • the metal flows out of the distributor through an outlet orifice, and thus forms a pouring jet which penetrates into the ingot mold by passing through the meniscus, i.e. the surface of the liquid metal. present in the mold.
  • the pouring jet On its path between the distributor and the ingot mold, the pouring jet is confined in a tube made of refractory material, called a pouring nozzle.
  • the upper end of the nozzle is fixed to the bottom of the distributor, while its lower end passes through the meniscus and plunges into the liquid metal.
  • the purpose of the nozzle is to protect the jet of liquid metal against its oxidation by the atmosphere, to prevent that during its crossing of the meniscus, the jet does not carry with it part of the covering slag which covers the meniscus, this which would deteriorate the cleanliness of the cast product, and finally to impose on the flows of liquid metal in the mold a configuration favorable to a satisfactory solidification of the product.
  • its lower end may include a multiplicity of lateral orifices (or gills), each oriented towards one or the other of the faces of the mold.
  • One of the essential parameters in obtaining a healthy product is the stability of the level of the meniscus in the mold. If this stability is not ensured in a way satisfactory, the solidification of the product takes place under excessively variable conditions. We can thus end up with a solidified thickness of the product locally too small, hence a risk of more or less significant tears da solidified skin. At best, we end up with a product of poor surface quality; at worst, liquid metal can flow through the tears (a phenomenon called "breakthrough"), causing the casting to stop and serious damage to the machine.
  • the average level of the meniscus is conditioned by the flow of steel flowing out of the distributor and by the speed at which the product being solidified is extracted from the mold.
  • the problem of regulating the level of the meniscus is most complex. Indeed, these ingot molds are long and narrow, and at a given time, the level fluctuations of the meniscus can be very uneven from one region to another of the mold. The indications given by a single sensor are therefore not necessarily representative of fluctuations in the level of the meniscus.
  • the lower end of the nozzle most often comprises two diametrically opposite openings which each orient a fraction of the metal jet towards one of the small faces of the mold. However, these two openings do not become blocked or necessarily widen identically during the entire casting.
  • the flows in the ingot mold can therefore evolve asymmetrically, and the undulations which affect the meniscus then have very different configurations on either side of the nozzle at a given instant.
  • this opening takes place on the side of the nozzle where the sensor is located, this one attributes to the corresponding disturbance an exaggerated importance compared to the real evolution of the average level of the meniscus that it provokes.
  • the unclogging takes place on the side opposite to that on which the sensor is located, the latter does not detect the disturbance at the instant when it occurs, or only in a very attenuated manner. In both cases, the stopper cannot be ordered in the most appropriate way to react to this event.
  • the aim of the invention is to propose a method for regulating the level of liquid metal which takes account of local disturbances of the meniscus by correctly estimating their real influence on the average level of liquid metal in ingot mold, and which makes it possible to appreciably reduce the amplitude of the fluctuations in the level of the meniscus harmful to the quality of the slabs, and this taking into account the entire meniscus.
  • the subject of the invention is a method for regulating the level of the meniscus of liquid metal in an ingot mold of a continuous metal casting machine, according to which the electrical signals supplied by at least one pair of sensors overhanging are collected.
  • said meniscus said signals being a function of the respective distances (h 1 , h 2 ) between said sensors and said meniscus, these two signals are combined so as to obtain a single signal representative of a fictitious level of said meniscus, and said signal is sent control means of a device for regulating the flow rate of metal entering the ingot mold, so that said control means actuate said device so as to bring said fictitious level of said meniscus to a predetermined set value (h), characterized in what we condition each signal from said sensors, eliminating oscillations having both a frequency greater than a threshold (F) and an amplitude below a threshold (D).
  • h predetermined set value
  • the invention also relates to a device for implementing this method.
  • the invention consists in conditioning the signals from these sensors prior to their combination, by eliminating from these signals the oscillations at high frequency and low amplitude, and by combining these signals into a single signal of a appropriately.
  • the liquid steel 1 contained in a distributor 2 flows through an outlet orifice 3, formed in the bottom 4 of the distributor 2, in an oscillating ingot mold 5 without bottom.
  • the side walls 6, 7 of the mold 2 are vigorously cooled by an internal circulation of water. against these walls 6, 7 begins the formation of a solidified crust 8. This progressively gains the entire cross-section of the cast slab as it is extracted from the machine, as symbolized by the arrow 9.
  • the liquid steel 1 On its path between the distributor 2 and the mold 5, the liquid steel 1 is protected by a tubular nozzle 10 made of a refractory material such as graphite alumina.
  • the upper part of the nozzle 10 is fixed against the bottom 4 of the distributor 1, in the extension of the outlet orifice 3.
  • the lower part of the nozzle 10 is provided with two lateral openings 11, 12 through which flows the liquid steel 1, each oriented towards one of the walls 7.
  • the nozzle 10 crosses the meniscus 13 so as to bring the liquid metal 1 to the heart of the ingot mold 5 (for reasons of clarity of the drawing, we have not represented the layer of slag which usually covers the meniscus 13).
  • the orifice 3 is partially closed (or completely closed when the casting is stopped) by a stopper 14 with a roughly conoid end, whose height position is adjusted by a device 15.
  • the height position of the stopper 14, combined with the value of the speed of extraction of the slab from the ingot mold 5, determines the average level at which the meniscus 13 is in the ingot mold 5.
  • the setpoint level 16 is thus marked with dotted lines. one wishes to maintain permanently during the casting of the slab.
  • the nozzle 10 comprises two level sensors 17, 18 of a type known in itself, for example eddy current sensors. They are located on either side of the nozzle 10, preferably at equal distances from the nozzle 10 and above the major median axis of the cross section of the ingot mold 5. In the general case, their lower ends are located at equal altitudes.
  • the sensor 17 delivers an electrical signal representative of the distance h 1 between its lower end and the meniscus 13
  • the sensor 18 delivers an electrical signal representative of the distance h 2 between its lower end and the meniscus 13. In the ideal case, these distances h 1 , h 2 should be equal to the distance h between the lower ends of the sensors 17, 18 and the reference level 16.
  • the analog signals delivered by the sensors 17, 18 are sent to analog / digital converters 19, 20, from which they emerge digitized. Each of these digitized signals is sent to a digital filtering device 21, 22 which operates in the following manner.
  • the signals emitted by the sensors 17, 18 and representative of the variations in the level of the meniscus 13 which they detect, are the superposition of multiple undulations of frequencies and of various amplitudes. There are ripples of low frequencies, below a threshold which is arbitrarily set at 0.02 Hz, and ripples at higher frequencies, greater than 0.02 Hz and which can reach a few Hz.
  • each of these is sent to a conditioning device 21, 22.
  • These conditioning devices 21, 22 are identical, and operate in the following manner.
  • the signal from each sensor 17, 18, after having been digitized by one of the converters 19, 20, is processed by a low-pass filter which suppresses or at least strongly attenuates the signals of frequency above a threshold F, that l for example, 0.02 Hz is fixed.
  • the remaining low frequencies are then subtracted from the original, unfiltered signal, in order to obtain a new signal comprising no more, significantly, than the highest frequencies of the original signal.
  • This new signal then crosses a dead band which strongly attenuates or eliminates from it the components whose amplitude does not exceed a predetermined threshold D, taken for example equal to 3 mm.
  • the low frequency sampled at the output of the low-pass filter is added to the signal thus processed.
  • the signals thus reconstituted are then sent to a combination device 23, to be combined into a single signal which synthesizes them, so as to provide the information necessary for the control of the stopper 14.
  • This signal constitutes in a way a medium level fictitious for metal in an ingot mold. It is sent to a digital regulator 24 which in turn provides the device 15 with a signal which enables it to adjust the position of the stopper nose 14 in the outlet orifice 3 adequately, and therefore the flow of liquid metal entering in the ingot mold 5.
  • the aim is thus to reduce the imaginary level of the liquid metal in the ingot mold to the set value, if a difference is detected between them.
  • the converters 19, 20, the conditioning devices 21, 22, the combination device 23 and the regulator 24 can be arranged inside the same housing 25.
  • the devices downstream of the converters 19, 20 can even be made up of a single digital processing card designed and programmed to perform each of their functions.
  • stopper control signal 14 the simple average of the signals collected by each sensor, and reflecting the deviations of the level from the setpoint. But there is then a risk of minimizing the importance of a strong disturbance as long as it is limited to one side of the mold. It is therefore advantageous to combine these two signals in a more complex manner. However, avoid going overboard by giving undue importance to a disturbance of average amplitude limited to one side. We would then fall back into the trap of the single sensor regulation systems described above.
  • the inventors have proposed the following method which gives satisfactory results.
  • the difference to be ideally maintained between the meniscus 13 and the sensors 17, 18 is called h, this difference corresponding to the setpoint level 16.
  • the differences measured between the sensors are called h 1 and h 2 respectively. 17 and 18 and the meniscus 13.
  • the differences (h 1 - h) and (h 2 - h) reflect the differences in the levels of the metal in the ingot mold in line with the sensors 17, 18 compared to the setpoint level 16. If these differences are positive, the metal level at the place of measurement is lower than the setpoint level 16. If they are negative, the metal level at the place of measurement is higher than the setpoint level.
  • the regulator 24 and the control means 15 impose on the stopper 14 a movement such that it aims to correct the difference between the set value 16 and the fictitious level represented by the signal leaving the device. combination, established as just exposed.
  • the operation is then repeated at an instant t + ⁇ t, ⁇ t being, for example, equal to 0.1 sec, and an almost continuous regulation of the level of liquid metal in the mold is thus obtained.
  • the regulating device described can also be used on a continuous casting machine on which the flow rate of the liquid steel leaving the distributor is regulated by a device other than a stopper, for example a nozzle with drawer. .

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PCT/FR1994/000292 WO1994022618A1 (fr) 1993-03-30 1994-03-17 Procede et dispositif de regulation du niveau de metal liquide dans une lingotiere de coulee continue des metaux

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