EP1315841B1 - Procede pour le traitement metallurgique d'acier en fusion dans un convertisseur a soufflage d'oxygene par le haut - Google Patents

Procede pour le traitement metallurgique d'acier en fusion dans un convertisseur a soufflage d'oxygene par le haut Download PDF

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EP1315841B1
EP1315841B1 EP00972070A EP00972070A EP1315841B1 EP 1315841 B1 EP1315841 B1 EP 1315841B1 EP 00972070 A EP00972070 A EP 00972070A EP 00972070 A EP00972070 A EP 00972070A EP 1315841 B1 EP1315841 B1 EP 1315841B1
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21C—PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
    • C21C7/00—Treating molten ferrous alloys, e.g. steel, not covered by groups C21C1/00 - C21C5/00
    • C21C7/04—Removing impurities by adding a treating agent
    • C21C7/068—Decarburising
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21C—PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
    • C21C5/00—Manufacture of carbon-steel, e.g. plain mild steel, medium carbon steel or cast steel or stainless steel
    • C21C5/28—Manufacture of steel in the converter
    • C21C5/30—Regulating or controlling the blowing
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21C—PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
    • C21C5/00—Manufacture of carbon-steel, e.g. plain mild steel, medium carbon steel or cast steel or stainless steel
    • C21C5/28—Manufacture of steel in the converter
    • C21C5/42—Constructional features of converters
    • C21C5/46—Details or accessories
    • C21C5/4606—Lances or injectors
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21C—PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
    • C21C5/00—Manufacture of carbon-steel, e.g. plain mild steel, medium carbon steel or cast steel or stainless steel
    • C21C5/28—Manufacture of steel in the converter
    • C21C5/42—Constructional features of converters
    • C21C5/46—Details or accessories
    • C21C5/4673—Measuring and sampling devices

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  • oxygen is blown onto the top of the molten steel under the control of a blowing lance.
  • the oxygen lance is subjected to a high thermal load during this top blowing, particularly on its front end. It is therefore typical to cool the lance down intensively.
  • the most effective way to cool an oxygen blowing lance is to thoroughly flush the head of the lance with a large volume of cool water under high pressure.
  • the head of the lance is made of a material with good thermal conductivity, such as copper.
  • the invention concerns a water cooled oxygen blowing lance made up of a shafted lance body and lance head, for implementation of this process more specifically, with an oxygen supply that runs through the lance body and flows to blowing nozzles distributed in the lance head and with outlet and inlet passageways for water running through the lance body to the cooling chambers in the lance head.
  • the invention is based on the task of creating an oxygen blowing lance that to a great extent is protected from the release of water.
  • the problem is solved in that the temperature in the lance head of the blowing lance, which is transferred from the molten steel to the lance head is monitored using at least one of the temperature probes which are integrated into the lance head and regulated by cooling off with water and/or with an oxygen supply and/or the addition of aggregates and/or the distance of the lance head from the molten metal bath.
  • the abrasion on the front end of the lance head as a function of the tool life and the temperature curve as a function of the tool life can be primarily considered as correction sizes.
  • the rate and the time of the addition influence temperature regulation.
  • scrap for cooling briquettes, ores, lime and other similar things are considered as aggregates.
  • the temperature of the melting bath surface radiating directly onto the front end of the lance head is detected through the temperature in the lance head. Using this measurement of the temperature the metallurgical process of the refinement can be controlled. At the same time the head of the blowing lance can be protected from the release of water through the various individual steps or through a combination of measures.
  • the above task is solved by integrating at least one temperature probe in the lance head behind its front end and between the cooling chambers, the signal lines of which are ducted through the lance body.
  • the temperature of the local area in the lance head can be determined, and from experience used as an indicator of the danger of rupturing.
  • the temperature of the local area in the lance head can be determined, and from experience used as an indicator of the danger of rupturing.
  • the oxygen piping is situated in the middle of the lance head and surrounded with inlet and outlet channels for the cooling water through the formation of coaxial ring channels, where the outermost ring channel is the outlet channel and the center ring channel is the inlet channel.
  • the temperature probe can be put in a bore hole of a nose saddle of the lance head using a disconnectable adapter which is secured inside the lance head.
  • a disconnectable adapter which is secured inside the lance head.
  • the protective pipe should overlap and seal the adapter like a telescopic sleeve.
  • one of the set ups of the invention provides for there being coaxial fittings at the cooling chambers of the lance heads for continuing coaxial inlet and outlet cool water channels. These fittings may then be welded on to the continuing coaxial inlet and outlet channels.
  • the oxygen blowing lance shown in Figure 1 is made up of a shafted lance body 1 and a lance head 2 which is welded onto the body.
  • the lowest part of the lance head 2 is made from copper.
  • Another reason for making the decision to use copper as the material for the lance head 2 is the good thermal conductivity of copper which makes it possible to effectively cool the lance head 2 with cooling water during blowing.
  • the lance head 2 comprises a nozzle body 2a, made of copper, with a crown of a total of six evenly spaced nozzles 3 and 4 in a circle and simply directed outwards, cooling chambers 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 as well as a central, axial strut 11.
  • Coaxial, tubular fittings 2b, 2c, and 2d, are connected to the outermost cooling chambers which together with the nozzle body 2a form an interchangeable modular unit.
  • the lance body 1 consists of three coaxial tubes 12, 13 and 14 made from steel. Together with the incoming/feed connection piece 12a the inside tube 12 forms a central supply line 15 for the oxygen to be supplied to the blowing nozzles 3 and 4.
  • a close sliding fit for 12a is provided in the upper area between the inside pipe 12 on the inside and the middle and outside tubes 13 and 14 which together form a single unit, on the outside. This close sliding fit at 12a serves for adjustment of the relative linear expansions between the tubes 12, 13 and 14 and the assembly of the lance body 2.
  • Conduits 16 and 17 are developed between the inside tube 12 and the outside tube 14 as well as tube 13 that lies in between them. Of these conduits, the inside conduit 16 is the supply conduit and the outside conduit 17 forms the outlet conduit for the cooling water that is to be forced through the channels under high pressure. The cooling water is brought in and let out via laterally placed fittings 18 and 19.
  • thermoelectric couple 21 In the central strut 11 of the nozzle body 2a there is a bore hole 20 into which an engaging and disengaging, rod-shaped thermoelectric couple is plugged in as the temperature probe 21.
  • the temperature probe 21 is centered by an adapter 22 and held with its end in contact with the floor of the bore hole 20, which is recessed just a few millimeters opposite the front end 11a of the nozzle body.
  • the adapter 22 is fastened with screws to the inside of the nozzle body.
  • the temperature probe 21 is movable and stored in the adapter 22 and forced towards the floor of the bore hole 20 by a spring 23 that is supported on a regulating screw 25 screwed into the adapter 22.
  • the lower end 27a of the protective pipe and the upper end 22a of the adapter 22 form a sealed, telescopic sleeve which makes it easier to switch out the lance head 2 and allows for various linear expansions of the approximately 20 meter long pipes 27 and 12.
  • the protective pipe 27 is kept centered at several axially distributed places on the inside walling of the inside tube 12 using springed, radial supporting elements 29 which allow for relative axial motion of the protective pipe 27 compared with the tube 12.
  • the protective pipe 27 is attached directly to the tube 12 only at the top with radial struts 30 and scaled free from tube 12 and open to the atmosphere.
  • the regulating screw 25 is first screwed into the adapter 22 with the rod-shaped temperature probe 21.
  • the adapter 22 is already preassembled on the inside of the nozzle body 2a so that the temperature probe 21 sits securely in the bore hole 20 after the regulating screw 25 is screwed in.
  • the nozzle body 2a is then connected with its fitting 2d to the inside tube 12 on the point of separation 31 and welded on. In this way the middle and the outside tubes 13 and 14 are pushed back on to the inside tube 12 and the middle tube 13 respectively.
  • the special advantages of the invention are that the temperature is monitored at the places of an oxygen blowing lance which are critical with regard to a release of water, that is the front end 11a of the nozzle body that lies opposite the sensor focal point. In this way counteractive steps can be taken with as little delay as possible when there is the threat of a rupture, whether it be due to the mechanical wear and tear of the remaining wall thickness of the cooling chamber, or due to weakening of the chamber walls because of high thermal peaks when there is insufficient cooling during dismantling. Because of the practically immediate determination of the actual temperature it is also possible to consider the march of temperature over time when choosing what measures to take, using which a rupture can be counteracted.

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  1. Une lance soufflant de l'oxygène comportant :
    un corps de lance comprenant un conduit d'oxygène et des conduits d'entrée et de sortie d'eau de refroidissement entourant ledit conduit d'oxygène ;
    une tête de lance raccordée audit corps de lance et comportant un corps à buses, ledit corps à buses comprenant une barre centrale ayant un trou formant alésage, une pluralité de buses agencées autour de ladite barre centrale, et une pluralité de chambres de refroidissement agencées autour de ladite barre centrale, dans laquelle ladite pluralité de buses sont en communication de fluide avec ledit conduit d'oxygène pour décharger de l'oxygène dudit conduit d'oxygène sur un bain de métal dans un récipient convertisseur, et dans laquelle ladite pluralité de chambres de refroidissement sont en communication de fluide avec lesdits conduits d'entrée et de sortie d'eau de refroidissement ;
    une sonde de température reçue dans ledit trou formant alésage destinée à surveiller la température de ladite tête de lance ; et
    des lignes d'acheminement de signaux raccordées à ladite sonde de température destinées au transport de signaux provenant de ladite sonde de température grâce à quoi l'actionnement de ladite lance de soufflage est régulé en réponse auxdits signaux.
  2. La lance soufflant de l'oxygène de la revendication 1 comportant de plus un tuyau de protection entourant lesdites lignes d'acheminement de signaux.
  3. La lance soufflant de l'oxygène de la revendication 2 dans laquelle ledit tuyau de protection est disposé au sein dudit conduit d'oxygène.
  4. La lance soufflant de l'oxygène de la revendication 3 comportant de plus des moyens de support agencés de façon radiale destinés à écarter ledit tuyau de protection dudit conduit d'oxygène.
  5. La lance soufflant de l'oxygène de la revendication 4 dans laquelle lesdits moyens de support sont élastiques.
  6. La lance soufflant de l'oxygène de la revendication 1 dans laquelle ledit trou formant alésage a un plancher et dans laquelle ladite lance soufflant de l'oxygène comporte de plus un moyen destiné à forcer ladite sonde de température vers le plancher dudit trou formant alésage.
  7. La lance soufflant de l'oxygène de la revendication 6 dans laquelle ledit moyen de forçage comporte un moyen élastique.
  8. La lance soufflant de l'oxygène de la revendication 7 dans laquelle ledit moyen élastique est un ressort.
  9. La lance soufflant de l'oxygène de la revendication 7 dans laquelle ledit moyen de forçage comporte de plus une vis destinée à réguler la force exercée par ledit moyen élastique sur ladite sonde de température.
  10. La lance soufflant de l'oxygène de la revendication 9 comportant de plus un adaptateur assujetti audit corps à buses, dans laquelle ledit moyen élastique est reçu dans ledit adaptateur, et dans laquelle ladite vis est raccordée par filetage audit adaptateur.
  11. La lance soufflant de l'oxygène de la revendication 10 comportant de plus des moyens destinés à assujettir ledit adaptateur de façon à ce qu'il puisse être libéré audit corps à buses.
  12. La lance soufflant de l'oxygène de la revendication 10 comportant de plus un tuyau de protection entourant lesdites lignes d'acheminement de signaux.
  13. La lance soufflant de l'oxygène de la revendication 12, dans laquelle ledit tuyau de protection et ledit adaptateur forment un manchon téléscopique scellé.
EP00972070A 1999-10-06 2000-10-06 Procede pour le traitement metallurgique d'acier en fusion dans un convertisseur a soufflage d'oxygene par le haut Expired - Lifetime EP1315841B1 (fr)

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DE19948187A DE19948187C2 (de) 1999-10-06 1999-10-06 Verfahren zur metallurgischen Behandlung einer Stahlschmelze in einem Konverter mit auf die Stahlschmelze aufgeblasenem Sauerstoff und Sauerstoffaufblaslanze
DE19948187 1999-10-06
PCT/US2000/028077 WO2002031212A1 (fr) 1999-10-06 2000-10-06 Procede pour le traitement metallurgique d'acier en fusion dans un convertisseur a soufflage d'oxygene par le haut

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