EP1930092A1 - Cooling facility and production method of steel plate - Google Patents

Cooling facility and production method of steel plate Download PDF

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EP1930092A1
EP1930092A1 EP06783171A EP06783171A EP1930092A1 EP 1930092 A1 EP1930092 A1 EP 1930092A1 EP 06783171 A EP06783171 A EP 06783171A EP 06783171 A EP06783171 A EP 06783171A EP 1930092 A1 EP1930092 A1 EP 1930092A1
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Naoki Nakata
Takashi Kuroki
Akio Fujibayashi
Shogo Tomita
Shunichi Nishida
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
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    • B21B45/00Devices for surface or other treatment of work, specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21BROLLING OF METAL
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    • B21B45/0209Cooling devices, e.g. using gaseous coolants
    • B21B45/0215Cooling devices, e.g. using gaseous coolants using liquid coolants, e.g. for sections, for tubes
    • B21B45/0218Cooling devices, e.g. using gaseous coolants using liquid coolants, e.g. for sections, for tubes for strips, sheets, or plates
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21BROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B37/00Control devices or methods specially adapted for metal-rolling mills or the work produced thereby
    • B21B37/74Temperature control, e.g. by cooling or heating the rolls or the product
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21BROLLING OF METAL
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    • B21B37/74Temperature control, e.g. by cooling or heating the rolls or the product
    • B21B37/76Cooling control on the run-out table

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  • the present invention relates to cooling equipment of a steel plate or sheet and a method of manufacturing the steel plate or sheet.
  • a header 51 serving as an apron
  • a plurality of holes called multi-hole nozzles 52
  • a rod-like water flow 53 is supplied from the multi-hole nozzles 52 to the under surface of a steel plate or sheet 10. Supplying a relatively large amount of cooling water to the steel plate or sheet allows a high cooling speed to be obtained.
  • the technology discussed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 10-263669 is provided.
  • the steel plate or sheet can be efficiently cooled as a result of disposing nozzles in a honeycomb arrangement.
  • the header 51 of under-side cooling equipment 50 also serves as an apron between the table rolls 14, when the steel plate or sheet 10 having a downwardly curved edge enters, the steel plate or sheet 10 collides with the header 51, thereby breaking the header 51. If the nozzles 52 are crushed or deformed as a result of breaking the header 51, the cooling uniformity is considerably deteriorated. Therefore, when this technology is used for a long time, it has equipment maintainability problems unless, for example, the header (apron) 51 is frequently replaced.
  • the cooling water 53 drops after being supplied to the steel plate or sheet 10, the cooling water 53 accumulates on the header (apron) 51, and forms a water film(or puddle) 54. Since the holes that are formed in the top surface of the header 51, serving as an apron, become the nozzles 52, newly supplied cooling water must break the water film(or puddle)54 for being supplied to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10. The larger the increase in the amount of cooling water, the thicker the water film (or puddle) 54 becomes, thereby reducing cooling efficiency.
  • the cooling water is drained through narrow gaps between the table rolls 14 and respective ends of the header (apron) 51, the drainage hinders the cooling using the newly supplied cooling water. Therefore, the cooling water cannot be efficiently used.
  • the present invention is achieved in view of the above-described circumstances, and has as its object the provision of steel plate or sheet cooling equipment which has good equipment maintainability, which has excellent draining property when supplying a large amount of cooling water to the under surface of a steel plate or sheet, and which performs efficient cooling uniformly in a widthwise direction, to achieve high cooling speed; and a method of manufacturing steel plate or sheet having high quality.
  • the present invention has the following features.
  • the tube-shaped nozzles that supply cooling water to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet are protected by the protector plates, even if the steel plate or sheet having a downwardly curved edge enters, the tube-shaped nozzles are prevented from being damaged, so that equipment maintainability is good.
  • the tube-shaped nozzles are disposed in a predetermined arrangement, even if a large amount of cooling water is supplied to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet, the cooling water is smoothly drained from gaps between the tube-shaped nozzles, so that draining property is excellent. As a result, efficient cooling is performed uniformly in the widthwise direction to achieve high cooling speed, so that the steel plate or sheet having high quality can be manufactured.
  • the cooling water supplied from the tube-shaped nozzles is defined in the application as a rod-like water flow.
  • This rod-like water flow (also called a "columnar jet water flow”) refers to a water flow jetted from spouts of the circular nozzles (including elliptical and polyangular nozzles).
  • the rod-like water flow refers not to a spray jet, but to a continuous, rectilinear water flow whose cross section is maintained in a substantially circular form until the water flow collides with the steel plate or sheet from the spouts of the nozzles.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a hot rolling line of a thin steel plate or sheet that uses the present invention.
  • Reference numeral 11 denotes a reheating furnace
  • reference numeral 12 denotes a hot rolling mill train comprising a rougher and a finisher
  • reference numeral 13 denotes a run out table.
  • Pieces of top-side cooling equipment 20 for supplying cooling water to the top surface of a steel plate or sheet 10 are installed at the upper portion of the run out table 13 so that they are separated by a predetermined interval in the direction of transferring of the steel plate or sheet 10 (hereafter simply referred to as "transferring direction").
  • Pieces of under-side cooling equipment 30 for supplying cooling water to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10 from gaps between table rolls 14 are installed at the lower portion of the run out table 13 so that they are separated by a predetermined interval in the transferring direction.
  • the hot rolling mill train 12 performs roughing and finishing rolling on a slab that is extracted from the reheating furnace 11, to form the slab to a predetermined finishing plate or sheet thickness at a predetermined finishing temperature. Then, the slab is transfered to the run out table 13, and is cooled to a predetermined temperature by cooling water jetted from the pieces of the top-side cooling equipment 20 and the under-side cooling equipment 30.
  • Fig. 2 shows the under-side cooling equipment 30 according to the embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the disposition of nozzles of the under-side cooling equipment 30.
  • the under-side cooling equipment 30 comprises a header 31, a plurality of protector plates 34, and nozzle trains.
  • the protector plates 34 are disposed on the top surface of the header 31 obliquely with respect to the transferring direction.
  • the nozzle trains are provided on the header 21 obliquely with respect to the transferring direction so that, here, two nozzle trains each are disposed between the protector plates 34 that are adjacent to each other.
  • the nozzle trains have the same number of circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 (here, one) disposed, respectively, on virtual lines 36 (broken line in Fig. 3 ) drawn at certain pitches in a plate or sheet width direction.
  • each circular-tube-shaped nozzle 32 that jets a rod-like water flow is positioned below the top ends of the protector plates 34, and above a center 14a of a circular cross section of each table roll 14.
  • the header 31 to which the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are mounted is positioned below the center 14a of the circular cross section of each table roll 14.
  • the inside diameter of each circular-tube-shaped nozzle 32 is 3 to 8 mm, and the jet speed is 1 to 10 m/s. It is desirable that the intervals between the protector plates 34 be equal to each other.
  • the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 that supply a rod-like water flow 33 to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10 are protected by the protector plates 34, even if the steel plate or sheet having a downwardly curved edge enters, damage to the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 is prevented from occurring, so that equipment maintainability is good. Therefore, while the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are in a good state, cooling can be performed over a long period of time. Consequently, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of strip temperature deviation of the steel plate or sheet, without, for example, repairing the equipment.
  • the cooling water is smoothly drained from the gaps between the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32, so that draining property is excellent.
  • the header 31 is positioned below the center 14a of the circular cross section of each table roll 14, the flow of the cooling water is not hindered between the header 31 and the table rolls 14, so that the cooling water is more smoothly drained. Therefore, the cooling water is not retained at the top surface of the header 31, so that spouts at ends of the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are not submerged. Consequently, cooling water having high momentum is always supplied to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10, so that efficient cooling can be performed.
  • the ends of the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are positioned above the center 14a of the circular cross section of each table roll 14 because, if the ends of the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are separated too much from the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10, a high jet pressure for supplying cooling water having high momentum to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10 is required due to the influence of falling cooling water.
  • the inside diameter of the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 is 3 to 8 mm due to the following reasons. If the inside diameter is less than 3 mm, nozzle clogging may frequently occur. In addition, since the jet flow is thin, the cooling water may not be capable of reaching the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10 due to the interference of falling cooling water. Therefore, cooling performance is reduced. In contrast, if the inside diameter is greater than 8 mm, it is necessary to restrict the jet speed to a certain low value as a result of increasing the interval between the nozzles. Therefore, strip temperature deviation in the steel plate or sheet width direction is increased, and cooling performance is also reduced.
  • the jet speed from the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 is set from 1 to 10 m/s for the following reasons. If the jet speed is less than 1 m/s, the momentum with which the cooling water strikes the steel plate or sheet 10 is low, as a result of which cooling is not sufficiently performed. In contrast, if the jet speed is greater than 10 m/s, an extremely high fountain results, thereby causing the cooling water to fly to places surrounding the equipment.
  • the top-side cooling equipment 20 uses related cooling equipment including, for example, circular-tube-shaped nozzles.
  • the steel plate or sheet 10 is cooled at the run out table 13 using the above-described under-surface cooling equipment 30, equipment maintainability and draining property are excellent, and efficient cooling is performed uniformly in the widthwise direction to achieve high cooling speed. Therefore, the steel plate or sheet having high quality can be manufactured.
  • the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are used for the nozzles of the under-side cooling equipment 30, other tube-shaped nozzles, such as rectangular-tube-shaped nozzles, may also be used.
  • the disposition of the protector plates 34 and the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 is not limited to that shown in Fig. 3 .
  • three nozzle trains each may be disposed between the protector plates 34 that are adjacent to each other, with one circular-tube-shaped nozzle 32 being disposed on respective virtual lines.
  • the nozzle trains may be divided in two in the transferring direction, and a protector plate 35 may be disposed between the divided rows in the steel plate or sheet width direction.
  • the present invention may be used not only in a hot rolling line of a thin steel plate or sheet, but also in a hot rolling line of a thick steel plate.
  • a steel sheet was cooled at the run out table 13 in the hot rolling line of the thin steel sheet schematically shown in Fig. 1 .
  • the finishing temperature was 880°C
  • the finishing sheet thickness was 4 mm
  • the cooling was performed at the run out table 13 up to a temperature of 550°C.
  • a rod-like water flow was supplied to the under surface of the steel sheet 10 using the cooling equipment 50 discussed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 62-259610 in which the header 51, which also serves as an apron, is installed between the table rolls 14.
  • the current density of the cooling water supplied to the under surface of the steel sheet was 2 m 3 /m 2 min, and the distance between the nozzle spouts and the under surface of the steel sheet was 150 mm.
  • a rod-like water flow having a current density of 1 m 3 /m 2 min was supplied to the top surface of the steel sheet 10 using a related technology.
  • the cooling water after being supplied to the under surface of the steel sheet 10 was drained from only the narrow gaps between the header 31 and the table rolls 32, the cooling water accumulated on the header (apron) 31, thereby forming the water film (or puddle) 54.
  • the cooling water 53 jetted from the spouts of the nozzles 52 reached the under surface of the steel sheet 10 after its momentum was reduced by the water film (or puddle) 54. Therefore, efficient cooling was not performed, and the cooling speed resulting from combination of the cooling at the under surface and the cooling at the top surface was low at 20°C/s.
  • the water film (or puddle) 54 was not formed when an edge of the steel sheet 10 passed. It was formed some time after the passage of the edge. Therefore, only the edge of the steel sheet 10 was cooled well, and the temperature difference between edge parts and steady parts that are cooled after the formation of the water film (or puddle) 54 was as high as 30°C.
  • the steel sheet (difference between its maximum strength and minimum strength: at least 3 kgf/mm 2 ) having a large deviation of mechanical properties, such as tensile strength, was manufactured.
  • the cooling water was smoothly drained from the gaps between the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32, and the flow between the header 31 and each table roll 14 was not hindered. Therefore, the cooling water was not retained at the top surface of the header 31, so that the spouts at the ends of the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 were not submerged. Consequently, the rod-like water flow 33 having momentum was always supplied to the under surface of the steel sheet 10.
  • the strip temperature deviations in the longitudinal direction and the widthwise direction of the steel plate or sheet could be reduced to a very small value. Therefore, the deviation of mechanical properties, such as tensile strength, could be reduced (difference between maximum strength and minimum strength: 1 kgf/mm 2 or less), so that the steel plate or sheet having high quality could be produced.

Abstract

The invention provides cooling equipment of a steel plate or sheet, which has good equipment maintainability, has excellent draining property when supplying a large amount of cooling water to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet, and performs efficient cooling uniformly in a widthwise direction to achieve high cooling speed; and a method of manufacturing the steel plate or sheet having high quality. More specifically, the cooling equipment includes a plurality of protector plates 34 and nozzle trains. The protector plates 34 are disposed obliquely with respect to a direction of transferring of a steel plate or sheet 10 and at equal intervals. The nozzle trains are provided between the protector plates 34 and obliquely with respect to the direction of transferring, for supplying cooling water to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10. The nozzle trains have the same number of tube-shaped nozzles 32 disposed, respectively, on virtual lines 36 drawn at certain pitches in a plate or sheet width direction, and the top ends of the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are positioned below the top ends of the protector plates 34.

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    Technical Field
  • The present invention relates to cooling equipment of a steel plate or sheet and a method of manufacturing the steel plate or sheet.
  • Background Art
  • In a process of manufacturing a steel plate or sheet by hot rolling, in general, cooling water is supplied or air-cooling is performed to control rolling temperature. In recent years, a technology that increases the strength of a steel plate or sheet as a result of obtaining a high cooling speed and forming a fine structure is being actively developed.
  • For example, as a technology for cooling a hot steel plate or sheet by supplying cooling water, the technology discussed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 62-259610 is provided. In this technology, as shown in Fig. 7, a header 51, serving as an apron, is installed between table rolls 14, a plurality of holes, called multi-hole nozzles 52, are provided at the top surface of the header 51, and a rod-like water flow 53 is supplied from the multi-hole nozzles 52 to the under surface of a steel plate or sheet 10. Supplying a relatively large amount of cooling water to the steel plate or sheet allows a high cooling speed to be obtained.
  • As another technology for cooling a steel plate or sheet by supplying cooling water, the technology discussed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 10-263669 is provided. In this technology, the steel plate or sheet can be efficiently cooled as a result of disposing nozzles in a honeycomb arrangement.
  • However, the technologies discussed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication Nos. 62-259610 and 10-263669 have serious problems in equipment maintainability, draining property after supplying the cooling water to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet, and cooling uniformity.
  • In the technology discussed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 62-259610 , since, as shown in Fig. 7, the header 51 of under-side cooling equipment 50 also serves as an apron between the table rolls 14, when the steel plate or sheet 10 having a downwardly curved edge enters, the steel plate or sheet 10 collides with the header 51, thereby breaking the header 51. If the nozzles 52 are crushed or deformed as a result of breaking the header 51, the cooling uniformity is considerably deteriorated. Therefore, when this technology is used for a long time, it has equipment maintainability problems unless, for example, the header (apron) 51 is frequently replaced.
  • In addition, when the cooling water 53 drops after being supplied to the steel plate or sheet 10, the cooling water 53 accumulates on the header (apron) 51, and forms a water film(or puddle) 54. Since the holes that are formed in the top surface of the header 51, serving as an apron, become the nozzles 52, newly supplied cooling water must break the water film(or puddle)54 for being supplied to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10. The larger the increase in the amount of cooling water, the thicker the water film (or puddle) 54 becomes, thereby reducing cooling efficiency.
  • Further, since the cooling water is drained through narrow gaps between the table rolls 14 and respective ends of the header (apron) 51, the drainage hinders the cooling using the newly supplied cooling water. Therefore, the cooling water cannot be efficiently used.
  • In the case where the technology discussed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 10-263669 is used in cooling the under surface of the steel plate or sheet in a hot rolling line, when the steel plate or sheet having a downwardly curved edge enters, the steel plate or sheet collides with the nozzles, thereby breaking the nozzles. The edge of the steel plate or sheet may be prevented from colliding with the nozzles by installing a protector plate between the nozzles. However, since the nozzles are shifted by 1/2 pitch from each other in the widthwise direction and the direction of transferring of the steel plate or sheet, the interval between the nozzles is too narrow, thereby making it impossible to install a proper protector plate. Therefore, this can only be used in a process in which a material to be cooled does not collide with the nozzles. Consequently, this cannot be used in cooling the steel plate or sheet in a hot rolling line.
  • The present invention is achieved in view of the above-described circumstances, and has as its object the provision of steel plate or sheet cooling equipment which has good equipment maintainability, which has excellent draining property when supplying a large amount of cooling water to the under surface of a steel plate or sheet, and which performs efficient cooling uniformly in a widthwise direction, to achieve high cooling speed; and a method of manufacturing steel plate or sheet having high quality.
  • Disclosure of Invention
  • To overcome the above-described problems, the present invention has the following features.
    1. [1] Cooling equipment of a steel plate or sheet, which is installed in a hot rolling line of the steel plate or sheet, comprises:
      • a plurality of protector plates disposed below the steel plate or sheet that is transfered, and obliquely with respect to a direction of transferring of the steel plate or sheet; and
      • nozzle trains provided between the protector plates and obliquely with respect to the direction of transferring of the steel plate or sheet, for supplying cooling water to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet,
      wherein the nozzle trains have the same number of tube-shaped nozzles disposed, respectively, on virtual lines drawn at certain pitches in a steel plate or sheet width direction of the steel plate or sheet, and
      wherein the top ends of the tube-shaped nozzles are positioned below the top ends of the protector plates.
    2. [2] In the cooling equipment of a steel plate or sheet according to the aforementioned [1], a header to which the tube-shaped nozzles are mounted is positioned below a center of a circular cross section of the table roll.
    3. [3] In the cooling equipment of a steel plate or sheet according to either the aforementioned [1] or the aforementioned [2], the top end of each tube-shaped nozzle is positioned above a/the center of a/the circular cross section of a/the table roll that transfers the steel plate or sheet.
    4. [4] In the cooling equipment of a steel plate or sheet according to any one of the aforementioned [1] to [3], the tube-shaped nozzles are circular-tube-shaped nozzles, the inside diameter of the nozzles is 3 to 8 mm, and the jet speed is 1 to 10 m/s.
    5. [5] A method of manufacturing a steel plate or sheet, which manufactures the steel plate or sheet in a hot rolling line of the steel plate or sheet, comprises:
      • disposing a plurality of protector plates below the steel plate or sheet that is transfered, and obliquely with respect to a direction of transferring of the steel plate or sheet; and
      • providing nozzle trains between the protector plates and obliquely with respect to the direction of transferring of the steel plate or sheet, for supplying cooling water to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet,
      wherein the nozzle trains have the same number of tube-shaped nozzles disposed, respectively, on virtual lines drawn at certain pitches in a steel plate or sheet width direction of the steel plate or sheet, and
      wherein the top ends of the tube-shaped nozzles are positioned below the top ends of the protector plates.
    6. [6] In the method of manufacturing a steel plate or sheet according to the aforementioned [5], a header to which the tube-shaped nozzles are mounted is positioned below a center of a circular cross section of the table roll.
    7. [7] In the method of manufacturing a steel plate or sheet according to either the aforementioned [5] or [6], the top end of each tube-shaped nozzle is positioned above a/the center of a/the circular cross section of a/the table roll that transfers the steel plate or sheet.
    8. [8] In the method of manufacturing a steel plate or sheet according to any one of the aforementioned [5] to [7], the tube-shaped nozzles are circular-tube-shaped nozzles, the inside diameter of the nozzles is 3 to 8 mm, and the jet speed is 1 to 10 m/s.
  • In the present invention, since the tube-shaped nozzles that supply cooling water to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet are protected by the protector plates, even if the steel plate or sheet having a downwardly curved edge enters, the tube-shaped nozzles are prevented from being damaged, so that equipment maintainability is good. In addition, since the tube-shaped nozzles are disposed in a predetermined arrangement, even if a large amount of cooling water is supplied to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet, the cooling water is smoothly drained from gaps between the tube-shaped nozzles, so that draining property is excellent. As a result, efficient cooling is performed uniformly in the widthwise direction to achieve high cooling speed, so that the steel plate or sheet having high quality can be manufactured.
  • The cooling water supplied from the tube-shaped nozzles is defined in the application as a rod-like water flow. This rod-like water flow (also called a "columnar jet water flow") refers to a water flow jetted from spouts of the circular nozzles (including elliptical and polyangular nozzles). In addition, the rod-like water flow refers not to a spray jet, but to a continuous, rectilinear water flow whose cross section is maintained in a substantially circular form until the water flow collides with the steel plate or sheet from the spouts of the nozzles.
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    • Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a hot rolling line of a thin steel plate or sheet.
    • Fig. 2 illustrates cooling equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
    • Fig. 3 shows an exemplary disposition of nozzles of a header according to the embodiment of the present invention.
    • Fig. 4 shows another exemplary disposition of the nozzles.
    • Fig. 5 shows still another exemplary disposition of the nozzles.
    • Fig. 6 shows still another exemplary disposition of the nozzles.
    • Fig. 7 illustrates a related art.
    Reference Numerals
  • 10
    steel plate or sheet
    11
    reheating furnace
    12
    hot rolling mill
    13
    run out table
    14
    table roll
    14a
    center of circular cross section of table roll
    20
    top-side cooling equipment
    30
    under-side cooling equipment
    31
    header
    32
    nozzle
    33
    cooling water
    34
    protector plate
    35
    protector plate
    36
    virtual line
    50
    under-side cooling equipment
    51
    header
    52
    nozzle spout
    53
    cooling water
    54
    water film (or puddle)
    Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention
  • An embodiment of the present invention will hereunder be described. Here, the case in which the present invention is applied to cooling of a steel plate or sheet at a run out table in a hot rolling line of the steel plate or sheet will be taken as an example, and discussed.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a hot rolling line of a thin steel plate or sheet that uses the present invention. Reference numeral 11 denotes a reheating furnace, reference numeral 12 denotes a hot rolling mill train comprising a rougher and a finisher, and reference numeral 13 denotes a run out table. Pieces of top-side cooling equipment 20 for supplying cooling water to the top surface of a steel plate or sheet 10 are installed at the upper portion of the run out table 13 so that they are separated by a predetermined interval in the direction of transferring of the steel plate or sheet 10 (hereafter simply referred to as "transferring direction"). Pieces of under-side cooling equipment 30 for supplying cooling water to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10 from gaps between table rolls 14 are installed at the lower portion of the run out table 13 so that they are separated by a predetermined interval in the transferring direction.
  • In the hot rolling line, the hot rolling mill train 12 performs roughing and finishing rolling on a slab that is extracted from the reheating furnace 11, to form the slab to a predetermined finishing plate or sheet thickness at a predetermined finishing temperature. Then, the slab is transfered to the run out table 13, and is cooled to a predetermined temperature by cooling water jetted from the pieces of the top-side cooling equipment 20 and the under-side cooling equipment 30.
  • Fig. 2 shows the under-side cooling equipment 30 according to the embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the disposition of nozzles of the under-side cooling equipment 30.
  • As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the under-side cooling equipment 30 comprises a header 31, a plurality of protector plates 34, and nozzle trains. The protector plates 34 are disposed on the top surface of the header 31 obliquely with respect to the transferring direction. The nozzle trains are provided on the header 21 obliquely with respect to the transferring direction so that, here, two nozzle trains each are disposed between the protector plates 34 that are adjacent to each other. The nozzle trains have the same number of circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 (here, one) disposed, respectively, on virtual lines 36 (broken line in Fig. 3) drawn at certain pitches in a plate or sheet width direction. The top end (front end) of each circular-tube-shaped nozzle 32 that jets a rod-like water flow is positioned below the top ends of the protector plates 34, and above a center 14a of a circular cross section of each table roll 14. The header 31 to which the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are mounted is positioned below the center 14a of the circular cross section of each table roll 14. The inside diameter of each circular-tube-shaped nozzle 32 is 3 to 8 mm, and the jet speed is 1 to 10 m/s. It is desirable that the intervals between the protector plates 34 be equal to each other.
  • In the under-side cooling equipment 30 having the above-described structure, since the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 that supply a rod-like water flow 33 to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10 are protected by the protector plates 34, even if the steel plate or sheet having a downwardly curved edge enters, damage to the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 is prevented from occurring, so that equipment maintainability is good. Therefore, while the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are in a good state, cooling can be performed over a long period of time. Consequently, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of strip temperature deviation of the steel plate or sheet, without, for example, repairing the equipment.
  • Since the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are disposed in a predetermined arrangement, even if a large amount of cooling water 33 is supplied to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet, the cooling water is smoothly drained from the gaps between the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32, so that draining property is excellent. Further, since the header 31 is positioned below the center 14a of the circular cross section of each table roll 14, the flow of the cooling water is not hindered between the header 31 and the table rolls 14, so that the cooling water is more smoothly drained. Therefore, the cooling water is not retained at the top surface of the header 31, so that spouts at ends of the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are not submerged. Consequently, cooling water having high momentum is always supplied to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10, so that efficient cooling can be performed.
  • In the foregoing discussion, the ends of the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are positioned above the center 14a of the circular cross section of each table roll 14 because, if the ends of the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are separated too much from the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10, a high jet pressure for supplying cooling water having high momentum to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10 is required due to the influence of falling cooling water.
  • The inside diameter of the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 is 3 to 8 mm due to the following reasons. If the inside diameter is less than 3 mm, nozzle clogging may frequently occur. In addition, since the jet flow is thin, the cooling water may not be capable of reaching the under surface of the steel plate or sheet 10 due to the interference of falling cooling water. Therefore, cooling performance is reduced. In contrast, if the inside diameter is greater than 8 mm, it is necessary to restrict the jet speed to a certain low value as a result of increasing the interval between the nozzles. Therefore, strip temperature deviation in the steel plate or sheet width direction is increased, and cooling performance is also reduced.
  • The jet speed from the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 is set from 1 to 10 m/s for the following reasons. If the jet speed is less than 1 m/s, the momentum with which the cooling water strikes the steel plate or sheet 10 is low, as a result of which cooling is not sufficiently performed. In contrast, if the jet speed is greater than 10 m/s, an extremely high fountain results, thereby causing the cooling water to fly to places surrounding the equipment.
  • The top-side cooling equipment 20 uses related cooling equipment including, for example, circular-tube-shaped nozzles.
  • Accordingly, since the steel plate or sheet 10 is cooled at the run out table 13 using the above-described under-surface cooling equipment 30, equipment maintainability and draining property are excellent, and efficient cooling is performed uniformly in the widthwise direction to achieve high cooling speed. Therefore, the steel plate or sheet having high quality can be manufactured.
  • Although, in the embodiment, the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 are used for the nozzles of the under-side cooling equipment 30, other tube-shaped nozzles, such as rectangular-tube-shaped nozzles, may also be used.
  • The disposition of the protector plates 34 and the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 is not limited to that shown in Fig. 3. As shown in Fig. 4, three nozzle trains each may be disposed between the protector plates 34 that are adjacent to each other, with one circular-tube-shaped nozzle 32 being disposed on respective virtual lines. Alternatively, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the nozzle trains may be divided in two in the transferring direction, and a protector plate 35 may be disposed between the divided rows in the steel plate or sheet width direction.
  • Further, the present invention may be used not only in a hot rolling line of a thin steel plate or sheet, but also in a hot rolling line of a thick steel plate.
  • Example
  • As an example according to the present invention, a steel sheet was cooled at the run out table 13 in the hot rolling line of the thin steel sheet schematically shown in Fig. 1. Here, the finishing temperature was 880°C, the finishing sheet thickness was 4 mm, and the cooling was performed at the run out table 13 up to a temperature of 550°C.
  • As the example according to the present invention, using the under-side cooling equipment 30 described in the above-described embodiment, a rod-like water flow was supplied to the under surface of the steel sheet. Here, steel sheets having a thickness of 22 mm were used for the protector plates 34, and the inside diameter of the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 was 6 mm.
  • As a comparative example, as shown in Fig. 7, a rod-like water flow was supplied to the under surface of the steel sheet 10 using the cooling equipment 50 discussed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 62-259610 in which the header 51, which also serves as an apron, is installed between the table rolls 14.
  • In both the example according to the present invention and the comparative example, the current density of the cooling water supplied to the under surface of the steel sheet was 2 m3/m2min, and the distance between the nozzle spouts and the under surface of the steel sheet was 150 mm. In addition, in both cases, a rod-like water flow having a current density of 1 m3/m2min was supplied to the top surface of the steel sheet 10 using a related technology.
  • The results of comparisons between the example of the present invention and the comparative example in terms of equipment maintainability and draining property of the cooling water, and cooling performance are shown in Table 1. In Table 1, "x" stands for the case in which productivity and quality are reduced, and "O" stands for the case in which they are not reduced. Table 1
    NOZZLES DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT SUBMERGENCE OF SPOUTS OF NOZZLES OF COOLING WATER COOLING SPEED STRIP TEMPERATURE DEVIATION IN LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION STRIP TEMPERATURE DEVIATION IN WIDTHWISE DIRECTION DEVIATION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
    COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE PERFORATED PLATE × YES × YES 20°C/s × 30°C × 30°C LARGE
    EXAMPLE OF PRESENT INVENTION CIRCULAR TUBE O NONE O NONE 30°C/s O 10°C O 10°C O SMALL
  • As shown in Table 1, in the comparative example, when the steel sheet having a downwardly curved edge entered, it collided with the top surface of the header serving as an apron, thereby damaging the equipment. This caused the top surface of the header 51 to be dented, and the spouts of the nozzles 52 to be deformed, as a result of which the jet direction of the cooling water 53 became ununiform, and the strip temperature deviation in the sheet width direction was sometimes as high as 30°C. In addition, costs for repairing damaged portions of the equipment were high, and productivity was often reduced due to stoppage of operation.
  • In addition, since the cooling water after being supplied to the under surface of the steel sheet 10 was drained from only the narrow gaps between the header 31 and the table rolls 32, the cooling water accumulated on the header (apron) 31, thereby forming the water film (or puddle) 54. The cooling water 53 jetted from the spouts of the nozzles 52 reached the under surface of the steel sheet 10 after its momentum was reduced by the water film (or puddle) 54. Therefore, efficient cooling was not performed, and the cooling speed resulting from combination of the cooling at the under surface and the cooling at the top surface was low at 20°C/s.
  • The water film (or puddle) 54 was not formed when an edge of the steel sheet 10 passed. It was formed some time after the passage of the edge. Therefore, only the edge of the steel sheet 10 was cooled well, and the temperature difference between edge parts and steady parts that are cooled after the formation of the water film (or puddle) 54 was as high as 30°C.
  • Accordingly, since the strip temperature deviation was large, the steel sheet (difference between its maximum strength and minimum strength: at least 3 kgf/mm2) having a large deviation of mechanical properties, such as tensile strength, was manufactured.
  • In contrast, in the example of the present invention, when the steel sheet having a downwardly curved edge entered, the steel sheet only collided with the protector plates 34, so that the steel sheet did not further enter downward. Therefore, equipment including, for example, the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 was not damaged. This made it possible to perform cooling while the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 were in a good state, so that the strip temperature deviation in the sheet width direction could be reduced to within 10°C, without, for example, repairing the equipment. In addition, since the operation was not stopped, high productivity could be maintained.
  • Further, since the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 were disposed in a predetermined arrangement, and the header 31 was positioned below the center 14a of the circular cross section of each table roll 14, the cooling water was smoothly drained from the gaps between the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32, and the flow between the header 31 and each table roll 14 was not hindered. Therefore, the cooling water was not retained at the top surface of the header 31, so that the spouts at the ends of the circular-tube-shaped nozzles 32 were not submerged. Consequently, the rod-like water flow 33 having momentum was always supplied to the under surface of the steel sheet 10. As a result, efficient cooling could be performed, and the cooling speed resulting from combination of the cooling at the under surface and the cooling at the top surface was increased to 30°C/s. In addition, since the cooling water was always supplied in the same state from the passage of the leading end to the passage of the tail end of the steel sheet, the strip temperature deviation in the longitudinal direction was reduced to 10°C.
  • Accordingly, the strip temperature deviations in the longitudinal direction and the widthwise direction of the steel plate or sheet could be reduced to a very small value. Therefore, the deviation of mechanical properties, such as tensile strength, could be reduced (difference between maximum strength and minimum strength: 1 kgf/mm2 or less), so that the steel plate or sheet having high quality could be produced.

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  1. Cooling equipment of a steel plate or sheet, which is installed in a hot rolling line of the steel plate or sheet, the cooling equipment comprising:
    a plurality of protector plates disposed below the steel plate or sheet that is transfered, and obliquely with respect to a direction of transferring of the steel plate or sheet; and
    nozzle trains provided between the protector plates and obliquely with respect to the direction of transferring of the steel plate or sheet, for supplying cooling water to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet,
    wherein the nozzle trains have the same number of tube-shaped nozzles disposed, respectively, on virtual lines drawn at certain pitches in a steel plate or sheet width direction of the steel plate or sheet, and
    wherein the top ends of the tube-shaped nozzles are positioned below the top ends of the protector plates.
  2. The cooling equipment of a steel plate or sheet according to Claim 1, wherein a header to which the tube-shaped nozzles are mounted is positioned below a center of a circular cross section of the table roll.
  3. The cooling equipment of a steel plate or sheet according to either Claim 1 or Claim 2, wherein the top end of each tube-shaped nozzle is positioned above a/the center of a/the circular cross section of a/the table roll that transports the steel plate or sheet.
  4. The cooling equipment of a steel plate or sheet according to any one of Claims 1 to 3, wherein the tube-shaped nozzles are circular-tube-shaped nozzles, the inside diameter of the nozzles is 3 to 8 mm, and the jet speed is 1 to 10 m/s.
  5. A method of manufacturing a steel plate or sheet, which manufactures the steel plate or sheet in a hot rolling line of the steel plate or sheet, the method comprising:
    disposing a plurality of protector plates below the steel plate or sheet that is transfered, and obliquely with respect to a direction of transferring of the steel plate or sheet; and
    providing nozzle trains between the protector plates and obliquely with respect to the direction of transferring of the steel plate or sheet, for supplying cooling water to the under surface of the steel plate or sheet,
    wherein the nozzle trains have the same number of tube-shaped nozzles disposed, respectively, on virtual lines drawn at certain pitches in a plate or sheet width direction of the steel plate or sheet, and
    wherein the top ends of the tube-shaped nozzles are positioned below the top ends of the protector plates.
  6. The method of manufacturing a steel plate or sheet according to Claim 5, wherein a header to which the tube-shaped nozzles are mounted is positioned below a center of a circular cross section of the table roll.
  7. The method of manufacturing a steel plate or sheet according to either Claim 5 or Claim 6, wherein the top end of each tube-shaped nozzle is positioned above a/the center of a/the circular cross section of a/the table roll that transfers the steel plate or sheet.
  8. The method of manufacturing a steel plate or sheet according to any one of Claims 5 to 7, wherein the tube-shaped nozzles are circular-tube-shaped nozzles, the inside diameter of the nozzles is 3 to 8 mm, and the jet speed is 1 to 10 m/s.
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