EP2782688A1 - Procédé et dispositif de nettoyage d'une surface d'un produit en acier - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de nettoyage d'une surface d'un produit en acier

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EP2782688A1
EP2782688A1 EP12788555.6A EP12788555A EP2782688A1 EP 2782688 A1 EP2782688 A1 EP 2782688A1 EP 12788555 A EP12788555 A EP 12788555A EP 2782688 A1 EP2782688 A1 EP 2782688A1
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nozzle
steel product
edge
cleaned
liquid jet
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EP2782688B1 (fr
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Eberhard Sowka
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ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B3/00—Cleaning by methods involving the use or presence of liquid or steam
    • B08B3/04—Cleaning involving contact with liquid
    • 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
    • B21B45/04—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 de-scaling, e.g. by brushing
    • B21B45/08—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 de-scaling, e.g. by brushing hydraulically
    • 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
    • B21B45/0269—Cleaning
    • B21B45/0275—Cleaning devices

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  • the invention relates to a method for cleaning a surface of a steel product, wherein a jet of liquid is directed onto the surface to be cleaned from a nozzle which is located at an edge of the surface to be cleaned. During the cleaning process, a relative movement takes place between the nozzle and the steel product and the
  • Fluid jet is transverse to the direction of
  • the invention also relates to a device suitable for carrying out such a method, which has a nozzle associated with an edge of the surface of the steel product to be cleaned for discharging a first nozzle
  • Fluid jet has.
  • slab products are here in particular slabs, thin slabs or flat steel products, such as thin slabs or slabs hot rolled hot strip or
  • sheet metal each having at least one level, across the width of the respective steel product
  • Thin-slab-adhering scale is largely removed before the thin slab enters the first rolling stand of the hot-rolling line.
  • Rolling stands are damaged. Thus, it may come to peeling off roll material or it may accumulate scale on the roll surface. Both events can cause so-called "scale marks" on the rolled strip and lead to increased wear of the rolls of the affected rolling stand.
  • Blasting devices usually comprise at least one on the operating side in front of the first rolling stand
  • Rolling arranged nozzle device the surface of the guided on rollers slabs with a water jet at a fixed flat angle
  • struck edges of the steel product consists.
  • the object of the invention was to provide a method and apparatus for removing adhering to the surface of a steel product
  • another nozzle which is located at a position adjacent to that edge of the surface to be cleaned, faces the edge of the steel product associated with the first nozzle, another aligned transversely to the direction of relative movement between the nozzles and the steel product
  • a device according to the invention for carrying out the method according to the invention accordingly has a nozzle assigned to an edge of the surface of the steel product to be cleaned for discharging a first one
  • Liquid jet wherein according to the invention a second nozzle for discharging a second directed onto the surface of the liquid jet is provided, wherein the second nozzle to the edge of the surface to be cleaned
  • Liquid jet emitting nozzle is associated.
  • the cleaning of the respective surface of the steel product is carried out by liquid jets, which are applied from opposite edges of the steel product and directed in their flow direction against each other.
  • the liquid jets are aligned so that their impact areas in the direction the relative movement seen in a central region of the surface to be cleaned overlap.
  • Relative movement is used to describe the orientation of the liquid jets, then it is meant any orientation that is transverse to the direction of the
  • Relative movement directed component ie in principle each deviating from a parallel to the direction of relative movement alignment. Seen in plan view of the surface to be cleaned, the
  • Liquid jets hit and kinetic energy is lost through a collision, which then no longer removes the surface to be cleaned
  • each cleaning surface at a certain distance meet the edge, which is associated with each of them discharging nozzle.
  • Liquid jets are therefore arranged offset in the direction of the respective opposite edge of the surface to be cleaned.
  • the edge region of the surface to be cleaned which adjoins the surface edge assigned to the respective nozzle, does not directly emerge from the nozzle associated with this edge
  • the opposite edge of the surface associated nozzle is discharged. Since the latter liquid jet has already traveled a greater distance on its way to the relevant edge region, it only hits the critical edge region with a lower kinetic energy. Alternatively, the impact area of the liquid jet can be focused on the surface to be cleaned in such a way that the liquid of the
  • Liquid jet only rinsed the critical area in a shooting flow, without the liquid jet directing a direct impulse to the critical edge area. As a result, a less rugged cooling of the edge area is achieved so that the otherwise existing risk of stress cracking due to overcooling is minimized.
  • liquid jets to hit with a certain distance from its edge on the surface to be cleaned and provide at least two of opposite sides and in opposite directions flowing liquid jets, is that in this way without major alterations or major adjustment effort
  • Device operated according to the invention can be cleaned. It is only essential that between the edge, which is assigned to the respective liquid jet emitting nozzle, and the impingement of the
  • Liquid jets on the surface to be cleaned according to the invention are aligned so that the
  • liquid jets could be aligned so that their impact area in their respective
  • Seen flow direction begins at the center line of the surface to be cleaned.
  • the one liquid jet would cover one half and the other liquid jet the other half of the surface to be cleaned. Because such an exact
  • Fluid jet emitting nozzle is assigned, depending on the width B of the steel product and the width KA, over which the of the den
  • Liquid jet are hit and there a
  • Liquid jet and that edge which is assigned to the respective liquid jet emitting nozzle, proven of 30 - 500 mm, in particular 30 - 200 mm.
  • the impact areas of the liquid jets overlap in the direction of relative movement over a width which corresponds to at least 20% of the distance which exists between the edges of the steel product, which are associated with the liquid jets emitting nozzles.
  • Relative movement seen adjusts an at least 500 mm wide overlap area.
  • the liquid jets are directed onto the surface to be cleaned in such a way that, via their impact area, they remove any dirt present on the surface to be cleaned
  • Spray angle area fanned out. In practice, this spray angle have proven to be between 10 ° and 45 °, preferably between 15 ° and 30 °. If the fanning out is too small, the flow directly overflowed by the respective liquid jet
  • Steel products for which the invention is particularly suitable are flat steel products, such as hot rolled
  • Descalers or scale scrubbers are used to gently remove after the breaking of the scale on the steel strip existing scale from the surface of the flat steel product.
  • Liquid jets are applied, so to arrange above the surface to be cleaned, that they are in
  • the nozzles are arranged so that they are arranged during the cleaning process with a certain distance laterally next to their respective associated edge of the steel product to be cleaned.
  • the spacing in question is advantageously dimensioned such that the width spectrum provided for the steel products to be cleaned according to the invention is the
  • performing nozzle can be effected in that the nozzles are moved along their associated edges of the surface to be cleaned.
  • the nozzles are arranged stationary and the movement of the already provided
  • Steel product is used for the relative movement. Such conditions are for example when cleaning
  • An optimally uniform cleaning effect can be achieved by aligning the liquid jets, which are applied in accordance with the invention, parallel to one another.
  • Relative movement can thereby be accomplished in a simple manner that in the direction of As seen relative movement between the nozzles and the steel product, the nozzle associated with one edge is positioned offset from the nozzle associated with the other edge. In this way, the distance between both the liquid jets as well as their respective
  • the angle of incidence of the jets of liquid can also be influenced by the height at which the nozzles are in relation to the surface to be cleaned
  • the minimum distance between the nozzles and the surface to be cleaned in height should be at least 20 mm, in particular at least 40 mm.
  • the angle of incidence of the liquid jets on the surface to be cleaned is also determined by the angle of inclination enclosed by an obtuse angle between a vertical and the central axis of the liquid jets, below which is the central axis of the jets of liquid discharged from the jets
  • the jets should not be directed away from the surface to be cleaned.
  • the angle of inclination should also not be too great to prevent the liquid jets at too steep an angle of impact on the
  • Inclination angle in the range of> 90 ° - 135 °, in particular> 90 ° - 105 °, so that the central axis of
  • edges of the surface to be cleaned of the steel product may be assigned to two or more nozzles, if appropriate, for example, to increase the productivity or to even out the cleaning result.
  • inventive method and the device according to the invention are particularly suitable for use in cast rolling, strip casting or hot strip mills for cleaning slabs, thin slabs, cast strip or hot rolled steel strips ("hot strips").
  • the invention is based on
  • FIG. 2 shows the device according to FIG. 1 in a view from the front
  • Fig. 3 shows the device according to FIGS. 1 and 2 in one
  • the device 1 for cleaning a surface 2 of a cuboid thin slab 3 is arranged on a roller table 4, on which the thin slab 3, for example, to the first rolling stand of a not shown here Hot rolling line is transported, which is part of a cast rolling mill also not shown here.
  • the thin slab 3 has, for example, a thickness D of 60 mm, a width B of 1500 mm and a length L of 40 m.
  • the cleaned to be largely flat surface 2 is here on the exposed upper side of the thin slab 3, with their to the
  • the thin slab 3 is in relation to the width B4 of the roller table 4 in
  • Center line M of the surface to be cleaned 2 under optimum operating conditions seen in plan view (Fig. 1) coincides with the center line of the roller table 4.
  • the device 1 for cleaning the surface 2 comprises two nozzles 6, 7, of which the one nozzle 6 on the so-called operator side 8a of the roller table 4, from which usually service work on the roller table. 4
  • the other nozzle 7 is arranged on the so-called ⁇ ntriebsseite 8b of the roller table 4, at which the sake of clarity not here shown drives the rollers 5 of the roller table 4 are located.
  • the nozzles 6, 7 may be, for example
  • the liquid jets S 1, S 2 are made of water, which is supplied with a sufficiently high pressure via a supply device (not shown here) to the nozzles 6, 7.
  • the nozzles 6,7 are each on a frame 9,10
  • the maximum spacing of the nozzles 6, 7 is dimensioned such that the entire width spectrum in which the thin slabs can be produced in the cast rolling mill can pass through the device 1 without any fundamental modifications.
  • the nozzles 6,7 bring the liquid jets S1, S2 in the manner of a cutting knife jet in such a way that, in
  • Liquid jets S1, S2 parallel to each other and with opposite aligned
  • Impact areas 15, 16, in which the liquid jets S1, S2 strike the surface 2 to be cleaned, are at a distance KR from the respective one
  • each extending over the distance KR and the length L of the thin slab KR edge region 17,18 hits the one
  • the distance KR is in practice 30-200 mm,
  • the width KA of the overlap of the liquid jets S1, S2 should in practice be at least 250 mm in order to ensure sufficiently intensive cleaning of the center region of the surface 2 to be cleaned.
  • the spray angle ⁇ should be in the range of 10 - 45 °
  • Spray angle ⁇ sweep the liquid jets S1, S2 when hitting the surface to be cleaned 2 too small impact area AB1, AB2, so that no sufficient cleaning or removal loser
  • Inclination angle ⁇ be selected in order to reach with the underside of the water fan formed from the respective liquid jet S1, S2 the predetermined impact area AB1, AB2 on the surface 2 to be cleaned. At a height above 700 mm, this angle would be the case today usual thin slabs 3 so steep that the respective
  • the inclination angle ⁇ is chosen as a function of the height h so that the water fan formed from the respective liquid jet S1, S2 the predetermined
  • the distance c of the two liquid jets S1, S2 from each other in the direction R of the relative movement is chosen so that the liquid jets are not

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Abstract

Procédé et dispositif de nettoyage d'une surface d'un produit en acier (3). Selon ledit procédé, une buse (6) se trouvant à une position associée à un bord (11) de la surface à nettoyer (2) envoie un jet de liquide (S1) sur ladite surface (2), un mouvement relatif entre la buse (6) et le produit en acier (3) a lieu pendant le processus de nettoyage, et le jet de liquide (S1) est orienté transversalement à la direction (R) du mouvement relatif entre le produit en acier (3) et la buse (6). L'objet de la présente invention est en particulier de réduire à un minimum le danger d'apparition de fissures sur les arêtes du produit en acier à nettoyer. A cet effet, une autre buse (7) se trouvant à une position associée au bord (12) de la surface (2) qui est opposé au bord (11) du produit en acier (3) associé à la première buse (6) envoie un autre jet de liquide (S2), orienté transversalement à la direction (R) du mouvement relatif entre les buses (6, 7) et le produit en acier (3), sur la surface (2) sans chevaucher le premier jet de liquide (S1), la zone d'impact (AB1, AB2) des jets de liquide (S1, S2) étant située à une certaine distance du bord (11, 12) qui est associé à la buse (6, 7) projetant le jet de liquide (S1, S2).
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