EP0998993A2 - Procédé et dispositif pour refroidir des produits de laminage chauds, notamment des bandes larges laminées à chaud - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour refroidir des produits de laminage chauds, notamment des bandes larges laminées à chaud Download PDF

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EP0998993A2
EP0998993A2 EP99121521A EP99121521A EP0998993A2 EP 0998993 A2 EP0998993 A2 EP 0998993A2 EP 99121521 A EP99121521 A EP 99121521A EP 99121521 A EP99121521 A EP 99121521A EP 0998993 A2 EP0998993 A2 EP 0998993A2
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Uwe Dipl.-Ing. Plociennik
Meinert Dipl.-Ing. Meyer
Ludwig Dipl.-Math. Weingarten
Martin Dipl.-Ing. Braun
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B27/00—Rolls, roll alloys or roll fabrication; Lubricating, cooling or heating rolls while in use
    • B21B27/06—Lubricating, cooling or heating rolls
    • B21B27/10—Lubricating, cooling or heating rolls externally
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B45/00—Devices for surface or other treatment of work, specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills
    • B21B45/02—Devices for surface or other treatment of work, specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills for lubricating, cooling, or cleaning
    • B21B45/0203—Cooling
    • B21B45/0209—Cooling devices, e.g. using gaseous coolants
    • B21B45/0215—Cooling devices, e.g. using gaseous coolants using liquid coolants, e.g. for sections, for tubes
    • B21B45/0218—Cooling devices, e.g. using gaseous coolants using liquid coolants, e.g. for sections, for tubes for strips, sheets, or plates

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  • the invention relates to a method for cooling hot rolling Rolled stock, preferably for double-sided cooling of hot wide strip heat exchange between two spaced frames between rolling stock and cooling medium with the help of a pressurized water flow made by a sequence of a pressure and convection space and the rolling stock by controlling the intensity of the forced convection is cooled.
  • the invention also relates to a device to carry out the procedure.
  • DE 39 27 276 A1 discloses a method for hardening steel with liquid cooling media. It follows that with the previously known methods for hardening steel with the aid of liquid cooling media, only a small hardening depth, based on the edge zone, is achieved even with rods with small rod diameters. In contrast, with the method according to DE 39 29 276 A1 not only a considerable increase in the hardening depth, but also a complete hardening, in particular of rod-shaped rolled products up to 70 mm in diameter, is made possible in a particularly simple manner in that the rolled product made of steel immediately after the rolling process a cooling section provided with cooling media is exposed to high flow velocities.
  • the flow velocities in the cooling section are expediently so high that heat transfer numbers greater than or equal to 50,000 W / m 2 K are generated and the rolling stock is cooled therein until the average temperature of the rolling stock cross-section is below the MS temperature, so that after leaving the cooling section
  • the temperature compensation over the cross-section converts the austenite still present in the core into intermediate stage structure (bainite), while at the same time a large part of the superimposed thermal and transformation stresses is reduced in the martensitic marginal zone by increasing the temperature to a maximum of MS temperature.
  • roller cooling is that the roller is a certain temperature must not exceed the strength the roller surface and thus the service life accordingly.
  • gap cooling proposed, cooling water via a infeed opening arranged at the lower end of a heat sink a cooling gap partially surrounding the roll barrel on the circumference fed in and arranged at the upper end of the heat sink Exit opening is fed out of the cooling gap again.
  • a seal of the Cooling gap is caused in that the heat sink made of elastic Material is placed under pressure on the roller. It can damage, e.g. caused by abrasion of the roller shell, causing marks on the strip to be rolled can.
  • the present invention is based on the aforementioned prior art the task is based on a method in the preamble of claim 1 mentioned type to further improve and train to the same Length of the cooling section between two scaffolds one clearly to realize increased cooling effect of the rolling stock, or at the same Cooling effect to significantly reduce the length of the cooling section.
  • the device provided for this purpose according to the invention is to be found under Avoiding the disadvantages and difficulties of the prior art a problem-free implementation of the method according to the invention enable.
  • An embodiment of the invention provides that the cooling of the hot rolled rolling stock between the stands mutually complementary pressurized water flows for a functional overall cooling effect he follows.
  • An embodiment of the method according to the invention provides that the intermediate stand cooling directly to the roll cooling on Outlet of the roll gap is connected.
  • the method provides that the Intensity of forced convection and thus the cooling effect on the one hand the roller cooling and on the other hand the intermediate stand cooling individually adjustable parameters such as quantity, pressure and flow speed the cooling water flow independently is regulated.
  • roller cooling as well as the interframe cooling from a common pressurized water source, however with independently adjustable pressure and quantity be fed.
  • the method also provides a great advantage, the cooling medium by means of contactless sealing of its flow paths the areas to be cooled of roll bales or rolling stock is dissipated.
  • the inventive device for intensive cooling of hot whales Rolled material consists of at least one cooling unit for both sides Cooling hot wide strip between two spaced frames one Finishing line, with one on each side of the belt for heat exchange formed between the rolling stock and the cooling medium by forced convection Pressure chamber and convection space of a flow channel for training a directed flow of the cooling medium and control of the intensity forced convection according to the flow velocity, combined with at least one upstream of the rolling direction arranged heat sink for cooling the work rolls of an upstream Framework, the heat sink each on one of the rollers a gap to which cooling medium can be applied by forced convection in the flow area between a cooling water supply and one Cooling water discharge formed and the cooling unit or the heat sink non-contact seals against those to be cooled Have areas of belt and roller.
  • An advantageous embodiment of the device provides that the Gap to form two opposing flow paths preferably an adjustable feed at both ends for cooling medium and formed approximately in the middle with a diffuser is and this with a collecting space for cooling medium to be removed communicates.
  • Any flow path can be used to control the quantity of cooling medium supplied advantageously a throttle element in the form of an adjustable nozzle gap be assigned.
  • the pressure chamber of the cooling unit on the inlet side of the rolling stock for the cooling medium in the form of a quantity and pressure adjustable Nozzle gap and a terminal diffuser with means for Deducting the cooling medium and that in the rolling direction before
  • a baffle element delimiting the pressure space is arranged that represents the beginning of the convection room. That is advantageous Damming element while changing the length of the pressure chamber and the Convection room longitudinally adjustable in the rolling direction.
  • the nozzle gap has a wedge as an actuator.
  • a practical design of the cooling unit provides that the diffuser in the area of increased cooling medium pressure Removing heated cooling medium. It is particularly advantageous that the cooling unit for roller cooling and the cooling unit for Rolling stock cooling are combined to form a structural unit. Here the outlet of the cooling water on the roller cooling unit is closed, so that the cooling water of the roller cooling unit in the inlet funnel of the rolling stock cooling unit flows.
  • Figure 1 shows the device for cooling hot rolled rolling stock or Hot wide strip 10. It is preferred for cooling on both sides of Hot wide strip between two spaced frames 8, 9 Heat exchange between hot strip 10 and cooling medium with the help a forced pressure water flow 14 between one Water inlet 12 and a water outlet 13 by a sequence of Pressure 21 and convection space 22 and the rolling stock 10 through targeted control of the flow rate cooling intensity of the forced convection.
  • 15 denotes a terminal diffuser at the end of the cooling section, from the cooling water consumed with the water outlet 13 is dissipated.
  • the intermediate frame cooling 20 is according to the invention an additional roller cooling 19 in the area of the outlet side Roll gap 11 using a directionally enforceable flow of pressurized water 25 along a circumferential area of the roll barrel 2 each work roll 3 is provided.
  • the cooling of the hot rolled material 10 is due to the combination an inter-stand cooling 20 of the strip between the stands 8, 9 with intensive roller cooling 19 two under forced convection mutually complementary pressurized water flows 25 to one functional unit with significantly increased total cooling effect optimized.
  • the temperature curve assigned to the two cooling devices 19, 20 in the form a dashed line shows that the surface temperature of the Rolling strip in the nip 11 first drops sharply and then until the entry of the rolled strip 10 into the cooling unit 20 as a result the core heat of the belt (temperature compensation) increases again and after entering the cooling unit 20 gradually drops until after Exit from the cooling unit 20 again slowly due to temperature compensation increases.
  • Figure 1 further shows that at least the water inlets 12 of the cooling section 20 and the water inlets 12 'of the roller cooling 19 with a - symbolically indicated - throttle body can be equipped.
  • the intensity of the forced convection and thus the cooling effect on the one hand the roller cooling 19 and on the other hand the intermediate stand cooling 20 through individually adjustable parameters such as Amount, pressure and flow rate of the cooling water flow regulated independently of each other.
  • Both the roller cooling 19 and the interframe cooling 20 can also be from a common source of pressurized water, however with independently adjustable pressure and quantity be fed.
  • the cooling media are guided by means of contactless sealing of the flow paths, for example in the cooling unit 20 by terminal labyrinth seals 16, 16 ' and in the cooling body 19 by fluidic measures in the area of the nozzle gaps 1.
  • E.g. becomes the cooling medium for the roll cooling 19 of each work roll 3 via an adjustable nozzle gap 1 along one on the roll bale 2 adjacent cooling water channel 25 from above and from fed under pressure at the bottom, guided in counterflow and on the outlet side introduced into a diffuser 4, from which used Cooling medium 7 through outlet openings 5 into a discharge space 6 managed and deducted from it in a controlled manner.
  • the cooling unit 20 has at the end for removing cooling medium of the flow channel 23 a diffuser 15, from which used Cooling medium is discharged with the water outlet 13.
  • FIG. 2 shows that the cooling unit 20 and the heat sink 19 to a structural unit are summarized. Occurs in the heat sink 19 at 12 'cooling water and flows along the roll barrel 2 onto the Warm broadband 10, is deflected there and flows in a channel above and below the hot wide strip 10 in the cooling unit 20. The cooling of the hot wide strip in the cooling unit takes place in the same way as explained for Figure 1. That of the unit of heat sink 19 and cooling unit 20 assigned temperature curve in the form of a dashed line resembles the temperature curve of the Cooling according to FIG. 1, but with the difference that the temperature of the hot broadband is comparatively lower due to its core heat increases before the gradual temperature drop in the cooling unit 20 takes place.

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EP99121521A 1998-11-04 1999-10-29 Procédé et dispositif pour refroidir des produits de laminage chauds, notamment des bandes larges laminées à chaud Expired - Lifetime EP0998993B1 (fr)

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DE19850739A DE19850739A1 (de) 1998-11-04 1998-11-04 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Kühlen von walzwarmem Walzgut, insbesondere Warmbreitband

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