EP2344287B1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zum kühlen eines vorbandes oder bandes eines metallstrangs in einem warmwalzwerk - Google Patents

Verfahren und vorrichtung zum kühlen eines vorbandes oder bandes eines metallstrangs in einem warmwalzwerk Download PDF

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EP2344287B1
EP2344287B1 EP09778628.9A EP09778628A EP2344287B1 EP 2344287 B1 EP2344287 B1 EP 2344287B1 EP 09778628 A EP09778628 A EP 09778628A EP 2344287 B1 EP2344287 B1 EP 2344287B1
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Jürgen Seidel
Uwe BAUMGÄRTEL
Andreas Wied
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    • 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
    • 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
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B37/00—Control devices or methods specially adapted for metal-rolling mills or the work produced thereby
    • B21B37/28—Control of flatness or profile during rolling of strip, sheets or plates
    • B21B37/44—Control of flatness or profile during rolling of strip, sheets or plates using heating, lubricating or water-spray cooling of the product
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B15/00—Arrangements for performing additional metal-working operations specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills
    • B21B15/0035—Forging or pressing devices as units
    • B21B15/005—Lubricating, cooling or heating means
    • 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
    • B21B2027/103—Lubricating, cooling or heating rolls externally cooling externally
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B39/00—Arrangements for moving, supporting, or positioning work, or controlling its movement, combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills
    • B21B39/02—Feeding or supporting work; Braking or tensioning arrangements, e.g. threading arrangements
    • B21B39/08—Braking or tensioning arrangements
    • B21B39/084—Looper devices

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  • the invention relates to a method and apparatus for cooling a pre-strip or strip of a metal strand in a work rolls having hot rolling mill, in which a coolant is sprayed onto the pre-strip or the band.
  • the surface temperature control, scale growth, mechanical properties, production quantity, etc. are influenced.
  • the cooling effect is even over the bandwidth.
  • the pre-strip temperature and the strip temperature are colder in the entire finishing line in the strip edge region.
  • a device of this kind is from the patent DE 4134599 C1 known. This is a method for hot rolling of metal strip with one or more stitches, wherein mainly on the inlet side of the rolling stand or the rolling stands, the pre-strip or the strip is cooled.
  • the known method is characterized in that the spraying of the cooling liquid on the feed side takes place in a region extending over the entire width of the metal strip as close as possible to the roll gap on the metal strip and on the shells of the work rolls such that the strip surface is supercooled and so a lower heat flow is created in the work roll.
  • the temperature of the pre-strip and the strip of a metal strip to be rolled in the strip edge region is lower than in the middle of the pre-strip or of the strip.
  • Fig. 1 For example, the temperature of a metal strip is shown as a function of the width of the metal strip passing through stands of a hot rolling mill. In this case, the band center of the metal strip is shown on the left edge of the diagram.
  • a curve 1 shows the course of the temperature before the shrinkage of the metal strip in a roll stand.
  • a curve 2 shows the temperature profile after exiting the mill stand. Both curves show the strong temperature drop in the edge area of the metal strip.
  • the temperature of the metal strip ie also of the pre-strip, in the Edge region is lower than in the middle, there is a different local load on the metal strip, which has a negative impact on both the work rolls and on the metal strip itself.
  • the affected areas of the work rolls may wear more severely, causing profile anomalies and / or flatness problems.
  • the cold strip edges can also adversely affect the metallurgical properties at the edge of the strip.
  • the American patent 5,235,840 discloses an apparatus for processing a steel strip in a hot rolling mill and a method for minimizing igniter growth on the steel strip and reducing wear of the work rolls in the finishing train.
  • the steel strip within the finishing train is sprayed with coolant at selected locations on the belt, with the surface temperature of the belt being controlled to be within a temperature range within which Igniter or oxidation growth is minimized. As a result, the wear of the work rolls is automatically minimized.
  • the European patent application EP 1 634 657 A1 discloses a system for controlling the application of coolant to a steel plate after it has been hot and cold rolled. For this purpose, the temperature distribution on the steel strip or the steel plate is unified in the width direction before the start of the cooling process and the steel plate is then cooled with a cooling rate equal to the width by means of a cooling control.
  • German patent DE 32 30 866 discloses an apparatus for cooling a steel sheet immediately after hot rolling. In the region of the side edges of the steel sheet panel shielding members are arranged, which are movable toward each other and away from each other in the width direction of the lying on a roller conveyor sheet steel plate by means of a displacement device.
  • the Japanese patent application JP 59078710 discloses a method for controlling the temperature of a finish-rolled steel strip, wherein shielding means are provided at the opposite edges of the steel strip, which prevent the impingement of coolant on the edges of the steel strip.
  • the shielding means can be moved towards and away from each other and adjusted in this way to the width of the steel strip.
  • the present invention seeks to provide an alternative method and a rolling mill with an alternative cooling device for applying a coolant to the pre-strip or the band. This object is achieved by the method claimed in claim 1.
  • a method is used, according to which the coolant is deflected in the region of the strip edges of the pre-strip or of the strip, so that it does not impinge on the pre-strip or the strip in the region of the strip edge.
  • the measures according to the invention are taken in the area of the inlet guide of the work rolls.
  • the side guides are in particular arranged in each case in front of an inlet gap formed in each case by two work rolls.
  • the means for shielding the band edges are respectively attached to the side guides, in particular as separate components. They can advantageously be moved together with the side guides transversely to the web running direction of the pre-band or the band.
  • the shielding means also advantageously provide for directing the coolant away from the pre-strip or belt.
  • the shielding means can also be arranged in the area behind a loop lifter (Looper) on the underside of the pre-strip or the band.
  • Looper loop lifter
  • a preliminary strip and a strip 4 pass through (FIG. Fig. 2a . 3
  • side guides 8, 9 are attached to the side edges of the tape, which are formed in cross-section approximately U-shaped and the band 4 overlap on the top and bottom in the edge region.
  • cooling bars 10, 11 cooling devices from the nozzles 12 On the top and bottom of the belt 4 are provided as cooling bars 10, 11 cooling devices from the nozzles 12, a coolant, in particular water, is sprayed under pressure on the surface of the belt 4 to cool this.
  • the nozzles 12 generate on the surface of the belt 4 impact areas 13 of the coolant.
  • shielding devices 14, 15 are provided which prevent cooling medium from the nozzles 12 'in the edge region of the strip 4 from being irradiated directly onto the edge region of the strip 4.
  • the shielding devices 14, 15 each deflect the coolant jet preferably into an area laterally outside the band 4.
  • the upper-side shielding device 14 therefore comprises on both sides of the band 4 to the outside of the band 4 downwardly inclined plates 16 and 17.
  • plates 18, 19 of the shielding device 15 may also be flat, relative to the plane formed by the band 4, since the coolant is already deflected downwards due to gravity.
  • the shielding devices 14, 15 and 16, 18 can be attached to the guides 8, 9 as separate components, or the shielding devices 14, 15 and 16, 18 are fixed components of the guides 8, 9.
  • the guides 8, 9 according to the width of the strip 4 to be rolled transversely to the direction of the tape 4 in the direction of double arrows A, B are displaced, then the shielding devices 14, 15 and 16, 18 are moved accordingly.
  • the plates 18, 19 are tiltable to adjust the impact area of the shielded coolant jet.
  • a shielding device 20 can also be arranged in front of the side guide 8, 9 on the underside of the belt 4, which in addition Fig. 2b . 3 is shown.
  • the shielding device 20 is basically constructed like the shielding devices 14, 15 and 16, 18 and also includes like these plates 21 for deflecting the coolant flowing from nozzles 22 of a cooling bar 23.
  • the invention is applicable regardless of whether the coolant flows from individual nozzles or is irradiated in the form of a curtain on the belt 4, which has a the width of the belt 4 over-extending rectangular nozzle opening.
  • the coolant flows from individual nozzles or is irradiated in the form of a curtain on the belt 4, which has a the width of the belt 4 over-extending rectangular nozzle opening.
  • other media such as liquid nitrogen or water-air mixtures can be used as the coolant.
  • the device shown in the figures for edge shielding the band 4 can be used at various points within the finishing train be, especially in a Vorbandkühlung or an interstand cooling. In this case, separate adjustment mechanisms for moving and adapting the shielding elements to the bandwidth can be used.

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