EP3096896A1 - Verfahren zur optimierten herstellung von metallischen stahl- und eisenlegierungen in warmwalz- und grobblechwerken mittels eines gefügesimulators, -monitors und/oder -modells - Google Patents
Verfahren zur optimierten herstellung von metallischen stahl- und eisenlegierungen in warmwalz- und grobblechwerken mittels eines gefügesimulators, -monitors und/oder -modellsInfo
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- the invention is directed to a method for controlling a metallurgical production plant for producing a product from a metallic steel and / or iron alloy, wherein the manufacturing process is controlled at least partially by means of a microstructure simulator and / or microstructure and / or structural model, which / at least one a mechanical strength property of the produced, the metallic steel and / or iron containing product containing program comprises, by means of which the at least one mechanical strength property depending on a respective process chain based on calculated metallurgical phase components and / or their respective shares in the adjusting metallurgical microstructure the process chain of the metallurgical production plant includes a hot rolling and / or plate rolling mill with a final cooling section and in the calculation of the at least one mechanical strength property operating parameters of the metallurgical production plant, on which the obtained at least one mechanical strength property depends, with at least partially set in advance, customizable initial values.
- the reel or cooling stop temperature as well as the cooling rate are specified as the mechanical strength properties of the product obtained can be adjusted to a large extent. Changes in these parameters are therefore inevitably also noticeable in changes in the mechanical strength properties, but only later on the basis of tensile tests on tensile specimens taken from the product produced can be determined. Setting the respective desired mechanical strength properties to the desired extent is one of the essential goals of a rolling process, since these properties substantially determine the price that can be achieved for the product produced on the market.
- the operating parameters are determined by means of a microstructure optimizer depending on the desired material properties of the steel or aluminum, the material properties being the yield strength, the yield strength, the tensile strength, the elongation at break, the hardness, the transition temperature, the anisotropy or the solidification exponent of the steel or aluminum can.
- DE 10 2007 007 560 A1 discloses a method for supporting an at least partially manual control of a metalworking line in which strip-shaped or slab-shaped or pre-profiled material is processed.
- the proportion of at least one metallurgical phase of the metal taking account of the phase state influencing operating parameters of the metalworking line and / or state parameters of the metal, based on a model that includes a model for determining the phase state continuously, based on a specific point of the metalworking line , Determined and the proportion of at least one phase, relative to a specific point of the metalworking line, is displayed to an operator. For example, the proportions of ferrite, austenite, perlite and cementite are displayed.
- WO 2005/099923 A1 discloses in the production of steel the use of a conversion model for the cooling section of a rolling train, with which conversion model in addition to the temperature of the steel and its metallurgical phase components along the steel strip are calculated in real time.
- a control system is described which keeps constant the phase components of the steel strip wound on a reel device. This will be done in The following steps are taken: In a first step, data is used to determine the degree of conversion and thus a specific phase proportion. In a second step, one or more parameters of the cooling strategy (manipulated variables) are adapted online as part of the cooling line of the rolling train so that the desired phase content of the cooled steel is kept constant at the reel device.
- the aim is to comply as precisely as possible with the required properties or material properties of the metal produced.
- Steel materials are added to alloying elements in order to obtain optimal mechanical strength properties of a product produced therefrom under the given process and process conditions.
- the amount of alloying elements to be added to the respective steel material depends above all on the mechanical strength properties desired in the respective application. Alloying elements are very expensive, which is why it is attempted to reduce or optimize the costs of the alloy. Since in each case concrete predictions about the result to be achieved by adding alloying elements with respect to the mechanical strength values of the respective steel product are not possible, it must be determined by experimental experiments which amount of a respective alloying element has an effect on the mechanical properties or mechanical properties Strength properties of a particular steel product exercises.
- WO 98/18970 A1 a method for monitoring and controlling the quality of rolled products from hot rolling processes is known in which production conditions such as temperatures, stitches, etc. are recorded online in the entire rolling process and therefrom by means of interconnected and the entire rolling process descriptive physical / metallurgical and / or statistical models, the expected mechanical / technological material properties, in particular the yield strength, the tensile strength and the elongation at break, of the rolled product are calculated in advance.
- the expected material properties can be predicted with this method.
- its chemical analysis is identified for each semi-finished material and fed to a physical / metallurgical Austenitmaschines- and excretion model.
- the process known from this document optimizes the desired chemical analysis of the primary material and the production conditions using austenitizing, deformation, recrystallization, transformation, precipitation, cooling and material physical / metallurgical models and determines these for new related product qualities .
- the carbon content or the manganese content of the material used in the calculation of a strength property is taken into account, so that from this model already the influence of alloying elements on a mechanical strength property of the product obtained is apparent.
- the invention has for its object to provide a solution which is advantageous over the previous procedure setting of operating parameters to achieve the desired mechanical strength properties of a metallic steel and / or iron alloy product and the desired metallurgical phase components in the product in its manufacture in a rolling mill.
- this object is achieved in that as detailed in the calculation of at least one strength property operating parameters of the metallurgical production plant, the respective mass fraction of at least one alloying element, preferably all alloying elements, the / in the chemical composition of the metallic Steel and / or iron alloy is / are present, and at least one other operating parameters, in particular a in the manufacture of the product acting on this cooling rate, preferably a setting in the context of a cooling process after a cooling cooling rate, are detected and a by a change at least this further operating parameter, in particular an increase in the cooling rate, achievable or achieved increase in the considered strength property by reducing the mass fraction of one or more rer of the alloying elements is at least partially compensated and / or compensated for the chemical composition of the metallic steel and / or iron alloy used.
- alloying agent (s) in such a way that only the proportions by mass of alloying agent (s) required in the achievable cooling rates or in another of the further operating parameters in each case at least to achieve the considered strength property chemical composition of the respective steel and / or iron alloy are present.
- the considered too The resulting strength property of the product produced is thus determined, determined and regulated, for example, by the possible or set cooling rate, whereas the chemical composition is adjusted as a function thereof.
- the influence and the contribution of the respectively present alloying elements to the mechanical strength properties of the product produced are taken into account in the calculation of the mechanical strength properties or the at least one mechanical strength property due to the solid solution precipitation hardening caused or influenced by them.
- the influence of the alloying elements on the mechanical strength properties can be determined precisely. If, for example, some manganese is added, this change is determined immediately with the program stored in the microstructure simulator and / or microstructure model and / or microstructure model so that the influence of this change on the mechanical strength properties or at least a mechanical strength property of the product produced can be determined. An operator can use this knowledge to modernize the cooling section of a rolling mill to increase, for example, the cooling rate.
- This higher cooling rate has an influence on the mechanical strength properties and can be used selectively to change the mechanical strength properties.
- the microstructure simulator and / or microstructure monitor and / or the microstructure model with the program stored therein provides the necessary information.
- the program takes into account the higher cooling rate and determines the resulting change in the strength properties.
- microstructure simulator and / or microstructure model and / or microstructure model which adjusts the at least one mechanical strength property of the product produced as a function of the respective process chain of a rolling mill on the basis of calculated metallurgical phase constituents and / or their respective proportions metallurgical microstructure of the product produced can be quantified.
- the stored program determines the necessary changes in the process or operating parameters and accordingly calculates the mechanical strength properties resulting from that change.
- the microstructure simulator and / or microstructure monitor and / or structural model and the program stored therein the operator has a new tool available for material development through optimal adjustment of the process, process and / or operating parameters of the process chain comprising the rolling mill with cooling section Perform plant and obtain a desired mechanical strength property of the material.
- the invention provides that the respective detected mass fraction of alloying elements (n) and / or the respectively detected at least one further operating parameter, in particular the respectively detected cooling rate, is / are evaluated with a countable number of a rating unit depicting a valuation unit.
- the invention also provides in a further embodiment that the respective summation values of the countable valuation units, the arise, be determined and / or represented for each considered strength property in different combinations of a weighted at a number of countable valuation units mass fraction of alloying agent (s) and a counted with a number of countable valuation units further operating parameters, in particular a cooling rate.
- the program comprises a mathematical term and / or algorithm by means of which the respective number of evaluation units and / or the different sum values determined are compared with one another.
- the method according to the invention therefore also includes an evaluation of the influence of the alloy composition and the cooling rate with respect to the respective desired mechanical mechanical strength (s) to be achieved.
- the evaluation is carried out by means of a rating scale of mapping evaluation units, with which the alloy composition and the cooling rates are evaluated.
- the evaluation units may be of a technically quantitative nature, such as ⁇ increase in strength / ⁇ % by mass of the sum of alloying elements compared to ⁇ increase in strength / ⁇ cooling water quantity. But these valuation units can (additionally) costs, ie monetary values are assigned, as can be seen from FIG. 1.
- the additional monetary costs (EUR 40.00 to EUR 215.00) required to change the yield strength to higher-strength steel grades (from S315MC to S650MC) are plotted there.
- different, different combinations of alloy compositions and cooling rates can be compared with each other on the basis of the respectively associated evaluation units.
- the sum values of countable valuation units formed in each case as comparison values can then be used to select a particular combination of an alloy composition and a cooling rate for the execution of the production process particularly favorable or suitable.
- a valuation unit that depicts a valuation scale can be, for example, a currency unit or a valuation unit assigned to the valuation unit. It is then possible to assign a cost value individually to the different cooling rates and to the different alloy compositions, but also summed up.
- the influence of alloying costs can be compared with the costs resulting from the costs for realizing a particular cooling rate for achieving the respectively desired mechanical strength property. It is thus possible with the method according to the invention to quantify the alloying costs for the adjustment of the specific desired mechanical property. Similarly, the cost of performing the necessary cooling rate to adjust the desired mechanical strength property is quantifiable. Since a higher cooling rate as well as the alloying elements of the steel or iron alloy greatly affect the mechanical properties of the obtained product, the cost of alloy change with respect to a change in mechanical strength properties can be accurately quantified by comparison with the method of the present invention. Thus, for example, after the conversion of an existing cooling section with a now higher, adjustable cooling rate, the values of the desired mechanical strength property can increase.
- This increase can be used to reduce individual alloying elements in the alloy composition of the steel and / or iron material used, thereby achieving cost savings for the overall process, which is due to the use of a reduced amount of one or more alloying elements.
- the method according to the invention such an estimation and evaluation is possible.
- the method according to the invention it is possible to determine the possible savings for each material by reducing the amount of alloying elements used. Materials with high alloy contents offer a high potential for savings, materials with fewer alloying parts a correspondingly lower potential.
- the method according to the invention or the program stored therein makes it possible to calculate the savings possibilities for the entire annual production of a considered metallurgical production plant, if the alloying costs for the respective considered material, ie the respective considered steel and / or iron alloy, are known.
- the invention is further characterized in that the program has the influence of mass fractions of alloying elements in the chemical composition of the metallic steel and / or iron alloy used includes the yield strength of the manufactured product mapping mathematical term and / or algorithm.
- the term is the equation having.
- C the proportions of the respective various alloying elements i, respectively in weight percent, A, and B, are respectively corresponding regression coefficients determined in advance by experimental tests, and YS is the yield strength whose change ( ⁇ ) is determined becomes.
- the regression coefficients are determined on the basis of test series in which the influence of carbon (C), silicon (Si), manganese (Mn), chromium (Cr), molybdenum (Mo), nickel (Ni), vanadium (V), nitrogen ( N), copper (Cu), aluminum (AI), niobium (Nb), titanium (Ti) and phosphorus (P) are taken into account as alloying elements of a steel and / or iron alloy, using the experimental measurement data for the determination of regression parameters present / templates or are known.
- the grain size ultimately resulting after the conversion in the product produced is deposited with the grain size in the microstructure simulator and / or microstructure model and / or microstructure model Program can also be determined, since the grain size according to the Hall-Petch relation of influence on the mechanical strength properties.
- the invention therefore also provides, in an embodiment, for the program to have an expression of the influence of the ferrite grain size (d) on the yield strength in the form of the equation in the case of a final cooling of the product forming ferrite structure
- ⁇ 3 includes.
- the ferrite grain size has a decisive influence on the resulting mechanical strength properties, since according to the Hall-Petch relation an increase ⁇ of the strength property "yield strength" with decrease of the grain size is to be expected
- d is the ferrite grain size
- A is a regression parameter
- YS is the Yield Strength, the change ( ⁇ ) of which is determined.
- the invention also provides that the program has a term which reflects the influence of the cooling rate on the ferrite grain size (d a ) of the ferrite microstructure forming a final cooling of the product in the form of the equation ⁇ ⁇ - ⁇ ⁇ * 2 a r covers.
- d a the ferrite grain size
- Austenite grain size, ⁇ ⁇ . the residual solidification and CR the cooling rate. It can be seen that a higher cooling rate leads to a smaller ferrite grain. In the production, one usually pursues the goal of producing a material with the greatest possible strength and to set the smallest possible ferrite grain.
- the ferrite grain size is significantly influenced by the cooling rate or the cooling rate, which can be set in the - usually the rolling train and thus the rolling process of the product produced final - cooling line depending on the available cooling capacity.
- a model which comprises a microstructure simulator and / or microstructure monitor and / or a structural model which has at least one mechanical strength property of the generated metallic steel and / or iron alloy comprising calculating the at least one mechanical strength property as a function of the respective process chain of the metallurgical plant on the basis of calculated metallurgical phase constituents and / or their respective proportions on the adjusting metallurgical structure of the product produced.
- MPC Mechanism Calculator
- the model is suitable for control purposes in the trim water zone.
- control variables the yield strength or the tensile strength can be used after cooling.
- the model calculates the necessary process parameters. The results are immediately visible and updated with each new cyclic calculation.
- the core of the MPC program is the calculation of the mechanical strength properties of the produced material after cooling. The calculation is done by semi-empirical equations. The calculation is made for different volume elements of the strip or sheet. The tape or sheet is therefore divided into small elements.
- the process variables such as rolling speed and rolling temperature are taken into account. These are included in a change immediately in the new bill.
- the result is a distribution of mechanical (strength) properties in the strip or sheet.
- the basis of the calculation of the mechanical (strength) properties is the calculation of the phase components of the produced material. This is it It is necessary to calculate the precise cooling curve of the metal and to model the decay of the austenite into ferrite, perlite, bainite and martensite using this cooling curve, which itself is influenced by the metallurgical microstructure transformation. If this model is used for the calculation of mechanical (strength) properties, a comparison with measured values must take place in order to ensure a good prediction of the mechanical (strength) properties.
- the strength properties of a product to be produced can be calculated with a given chemical composition. If the operating parameters such as the load distribution in the finishing train (rolling), the final rolling temperature, the cooling strategy or the coiler temperature changes, the resulting mechanical strength properties change.
- the program used in carrying out the method according to the invention carries out an optimization of the set operating parameters to be set and thus determines the best strength properties. Furthermore, effects of an improved system technology can be taken into account, for example an increased maximum rolling force or an increased maximum cooling rate or the like.
- the invention further enables on-line visualization of the currently adjusting mechanical (strength) properties by providing in a further development that the respectively calculated at least one mechanical strength property is displayed online at a control station. This allows manual intervention based on information and status messages and leads to less production downtime.
- an automatic control of the target strength properties can also be used.
- the invention is therefore also distinguished by the fact that operating parameters of the metallurgical plant are controlled by means of the calculated at least one mechanical strength property and the desired at least one mechanical strength property is automatically controlled. If predetermined desired operating parameters (for example, the intended final rolling temperature) are not met, for example because of a malfunction, the intended mechanical strength property (s) may no longer be achieved.
- the program carries out a calculation with the respectively currently measured values / data and changes the other operating parameters (eg the cooling strategy and the reel temperature) such that the desired desired mechanical strength properties (if possible) nevertheless be achieved.
- the mechanical strength property (s) is / are automatically controlled.
- a metallurgical plant for carrying out the method according to the invention comprises a hot rolling and / or plate mill, in which after a furnace forming in any number of stands takes place, which can also be divided into one or more roughing and one or more finishing stands, and wherein the formed material is then cooled in a cooling section on reel temperature or cooling stop temperature.
- the invention is therefore further distinguished by the fact that the metallurgical production plant has a process chain comprising a furnace, a rolling mill, in particular the hot rolling and / or plate mill, and a cooling section, and that operating parameters of the entire process chain of this metallurgical plant are included in the program.
- the metallurgical production plant comprises a steelworks and / or a continuous casting plant, which is / are also comprised of the microstructure simulator and / or microstructure monitor and / or structural model, which then forms a so-called Level 3 tool.
- the invention therefore finally also provides that the metallurgical plant comprises an area, in particular a steelworks and / or a continuous casting plant, in which the metallic steel and / or iron alloy is molten and in the program operating parameters of the entire process chain of this area comprehensive metallurgical plant.
- microstructure simulator and / or microstructure monitor and / or microstructure model By using the microstructure simulator and / or microstructure monitor and / or microstructure model, it is possible to reduce operating costs and to quantitatively assess the benefits of investment costs.
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