EP2869945B1 - Kontinuierlich arbeitende bandgiess- und walzanlage - Google Patents

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EP2869945B1
EP2869945B1 EP13765617.9A EP13765617A EP2869945B1 EP 2869945 B1 EP2869945 B1 EP 2869945B1 EP 13765617 A EP13765617 A EP 13765617A EP 2869945 B1 EP2869945 B1 EP 2869945B1
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Karl-Heinz Spitzer
Sven Klawiter
Rune SCHMIDT-JÜRGENSEN
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B1/00—Metal-rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section; Sequence of operations in milling trains; Layout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of stands; Succession of passes or of sectional pass alternations
    • B21B1/46—Metal-rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section; Sequence of operations in milling trains; Layout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of stands; Succession of passes or of sectional pass alternations for rolling metal immediately subsequent to continuous casting
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
    • B22D11/12—Accessories for subsequent treating or working cast stock in situ
    • B22D11/1206—Accessories for subsequent treating or working cast stock in situ for plastic shaping of strands
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
    • B22D11/04—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths into open-ended moulds
    • B22D11/041—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths into open-ended moulds for vertical casting
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B1/00—Metal-rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section; Sequence of operations in milling trains; Layout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of stands; Succession of passes or of sectional pass alternations
    • B21B1/46—Metal-rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section; Sequence of operations in milling trains; Layout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of stands; Succession of passes or of sectional pass alternations for rolling metal immediately subsequent to continuous casting
    • B21B1/463—Metal-rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section; Sequence of operations in milling trains; Layout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of stands; Succession of passes or of sectional pass alternations for rolling metal immediately subsequent to continuous casting in a continuous process, i.e. the cast not being cut before rolling
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
    • B22D11/06—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths into moulds with travelling walls, e.g. with rolls, plates, belts, caterpillars
    • B22D11/0631—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths into moulds with travelling walls, e.g. with rolls, plates, belts, caterpillars formed by a travelling straight surface, e.g. through-like moulds, a belt
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
    • B22D11/14—Plants for continuous casting
    • B22D11/143—Plants for continuous casting for horizontal casting

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  • the invention relates to a continuous strip casting and rolling plant according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the invention relates to a strip casting and rolling plant, as they are known from DE 102007056191 A1 is known.
  • a continuous strip casting and rolling plant is z. B, from steel research 74 (2003), No, 11/12, page 724-731.
  • this known as DSC process (direct strip casting) manufacturing process is suitable for the production of hot strip of high manganese lightweight steel.
  • the melt from a feed vessel via a runner and a siphon-like design as a pouring nozzle outlet region of a casting machine is placed on a revolving casting belt a horizontal strip casting.
  • the abandoned melt solidifies to a pre-strip with a thickness in the range between 6 - 20 mm. After solidification, the pre-strip is subjected to a hot rolling process.
  • the casting, rolling and winding of the steel strip requires the strip caster to carry out the removal of the cast strand from the casting machine with very little tensile force, ideally with a zero draw force.
  • the known high manganese-containing lightweight steels tend even at slight tensile stresses, especially if the band is not solidified, to tape breaks, this leads to plant downtime and increased repair costs.
  • strip tension regulations for continuous rolling mills for example, from DE 101 37 246 A1 or the DE 26 18 901 C2 known.
  • these designed for continuous rolling mills devices for tension control are not sufficient to control the strip tension between the casting unit and the subsequent roller unit so and keep it at a low level that tape cracks can be safely avoided.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a continuous strip casting and rolling plant, can be safely avoided with the tape cracks.
  • the stripper minimization, the casting unit and the following roller unit are mechanically decoupled, wherein for decoupling at least one at least two drivable rollers having drive unit for driving the belt between the casting belt and roller unit is arranged.
  • the strip casting and rolling plant according to the invention is fundamentally suitable for the production of hot strips of the most diverse metallic materials, but in particular for high manganese-containing lightweight structural steel, which reacts very sensitively to excessive strip tensile stresses.
  • the operating times and thus the efficiency of the strip casting can be significantly increased by the decoupling and strip tension control according to the invention and thus the maintenance costs for the strip casting can be significantly reduced.
  • a decoupling of driver unit and roller unit is additionally carried out.
  • a pneumatically operated working as a looper spring unit is used for decoupling.
  • the driver unit according to the invention is rotatably mounted eccentrically, wherein the rollers of the driver unit are displaceable substantially parallel to the strand normal during the casting and rolling process in the casting direction or counter to the casting direction.
  • the bearings can be either below the lower or above the upper roller in the frame of the driver unit.
  • the storage corresponds to a pendulum bearing of the driver unit, the "pendulum" (driver unit) is stored below or above.
  • one or more driver units may be provided, each of which is rotatably mounted eccentrically.
  • the individual driver units with the roller pairs can carry out movements with the storage according to the invention and counter to the casting direction.
  • the driver units are supported according to the invention via load cells (train pressure) against the frame of the Multirollerglättsystems.
  • load cells train pressure
  • the resulting from the force movements with and against the casting direction are limited by the elasticity of the load cells in the measuring range (Hugh range) to a few microns. As a result, no effective movements in the direction of the strand normal are exercised.
  • the upper rollers of the driver units are provided with coats of copper in order to accelerate the cooling at the top of the solidifying strand.
  • FIG. 1 a section of strip casting and rolling plant according to the invention with a strip tension minimizing Bandzugregelung.
  • the strip casting and rolling plant consists of a pouring unit not shown here with a feed vessel containing the melt with a horizontal runner and designed as a pouring spout and a two deflection rollers and a circulating cooled conveyor belt 1 having primary cooling zone and at least one subsequent from at least two drivable rollers existing roller unit 4. Shown here is the deflection roller 2 of the conveyor belt 1 at the transfer side to the roller unit. 4
  • the casting unit (Caster) and the following rolling unit 4 are mechanically decoupled, wherein three driver units 3, 3 ', 3 "with two rollers for driving the cast strip 5 between the conveyor belt 1 and the rolling unit 4 are arranged for decoupling.
  • driver unit 3 3 ', 3 "and roller unit 4
  • a decoupling of driver unit 3, 3 ', 3 "and roller unit 4 is provided, wherein for decoupling a pneumatically operated lifting device 6, as Looper working resilient unit is used.
  • the cast strip 5 is first removed from the conveyor belt 1 at the master speed v0.
  • the exit speed of the belt 5 is measured by a tachometer T0 and the peripheral speed of the driver rollers is synchronized to T0. At this speed, the belt 5 enters the driver units 3, 3 ', 3 "of a multi-roll buffing system.
  • the upper roller After running into the pair of rollers of the first driver unit 3, the upper roller is lowered onto the belt 5 with a defined force. Due to existing unsynchronities between the conveyor belt 1 and pair of rollers, the belt 5 is pulled or braked by the conveyor belt 1. Now, a first regulator engages and adjusts the roller pair speed so that the pair of rollers exerts no pulling or pushing forces on the cast band 5.
  • Unsynchronities can be caused, for example, by different roll diameters (wear), by different setting forces (degree of deformation) or shrinkage due to cooling of the strip.
  • the speed of the second roller pair of the driver unit 3 ' is now adjusted by a further control device so that here is a tensile force of ideally 0N established.
  • the pairs of rollers of the third driver unit 3 "and any further pairs of rollers work analogously to the second pair of rollers.
  • the solidifying belt 5 now exits the driver units 3, 3 ', 3 "of the multi-scroll system and is pulled by a pilot train cold-strand device 7.
  • the last pair of rollers also has a force-measuring device on the drive unit 3".
  • the pilot train cold-strand device 7 also adjusts to a measured tensile force of ON on the last pair of rollers and pulls the belt 5 via the lifting device 6 in the not yet employed roller unit 4. Shown is as a rolling unit 4 only a rolling mill, but it can, depending on Request also be several.
  • the looper bow is set up (Looper lifts) and the nip is closed.
  • the action of the lifting device 6 and the rolling unit 4 on the force measurement on the drive unit 3 "of the last pair of rollers of the multi-roll smoothing system is adjusted by means of a further control device that also here a traction of ON occurs.
  • rollers of the roller unit 4 are placed in an advantageous development on active hydraulic shock absorbers on the strand, so that the influences when immersing the rollers in the band 5 (degree of deformation) are reduced or suppressed.
  • the resulting loop loop gives the rolling speed control sufficient time to correct any unsynchronities.
  • the pilot pulling device 7 already pulls the cast strip 5 with the required force into the first rolling stand of the rolling unit 4, so that no force jumps occur here as well.
  • the contact speed of the rollers is synchronized by means of inlet tachometers prior to placement on the speed of the incoming belt 5. This also prevents interference with the belt 5 is prevented.
  • the looper control can either be force-controlled, height-controlled or designed as a physical looper model.
  • asynchronous motors but also DC motors can be used.
  • DC motors When using asynchronous motors, these are supplied by frequency converters, with each frequency converter containing an internal PID controller.
  • the required tensile force can be specified separately as a setpoint for the pilot train cold-strand device 7 and the tensile force for the rolling unit 4.
  • the multi-scroll smoothness system with the driver units 3, 3 ', 3 " is connected rigidly to the drive of the casting belt 1 by means of superposition transmissions (Ü), whereby very short-term fluctuations in the speed of the cast belt 5 are transferred to the multiroll smoothness system and thus none are produced short-term differential speeds between Band 5 and Multirollenglättsystem with the driver units 3, 3 ', 3 ".
  • Ü superposition transmissions
  • FIG. 2 an alternative control concept is shown. Like reference numerals correspond to like components.
  • the strip tension is measured via another load cell, which is attached to the frame of the casting unit (Castergestell).
  • the force measurement directly indicates the reaction forces of the tensile or shear forces applied to the belt.
  • This measured value is fed to a controller which directly controls the speed of an overlay motor (M).
  • FIG. 3 Another alternative is shown.
  • the reaction force of the Castergestells is measured by force cells individually or as a total force.
  • the caster frame is either on these special force measuring systems or hanging attached to these.
  • the reaction force of the Castergestells is corrected directly to 0N using the superposition drive.
  • FIG. 4 another possible alternative control concept is shown.
  • the role of Tacho T0 is used as Minilooper.
  • the roller is raised a few millimeters above the specified passline.
  • the bending of the cast strip 5 here must be kept low in order to avoid any cracking.
  • this signal is used according to the invention for controlling the superposition gearing (Ü).

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